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[QUOTE="leftytg, post: 2002204, member: 2651"]
good post.  Reading that post you quoted from texascpa pisses me off all over again.

Lets get this straight.  It is irresponsible to conclude that the Minnesota prosecutor's office has acted in any way unprofessionally.  On its face, this isn't like the Tallahassee/FSU "investigation" into Winston or Waco/Baylor's "investigations" into the many accusations there.  Read the police report - the police promptly interviewed the victim and moved to collect evidence.

I don't know why the prosecutor did not move to bring charges.  My suspicion, based on how the prosecutor's office worded their statements("insufficient[B] admissible[/B] evidence...") and the statement the victim read in court when she dropped the restraining order (talking about how she just wants to feel safe and move on from all this), and how absolutely agonizing and horrifying the process of testifying is for a victim of sexual assault, is that the victim did not want to testify.  If she was unwilling to testify, the prosecutor simply would not have enough evidence to bring a case.

Another thing to get straight.  This is not a "she said THEY said case".  The implication being that the word of ten accused is more convincing than the word of the victim, simply because there are more of the accused and only one victim.  The investigation by the school found evidence, when examining the phones of the perpetrators, that they had colluded and coordinated their stories.  You don't get the huddle together with your pals, iron out a cover story, and then claim that because the ten of you have the same story you are more credible than the victim.
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