Ken Buck, the sitting Colorado district attorney who wants to be the state’s next Republican senator, might’ve said some stoooopid things about gays on Meet The Press yesterday, like how homosexuality is just like alcoholism. But that actually wasn’t the most damaging part of this interview! Because we didn’t see the part where Buck talks about not moving forward on a woman’s rape claims because a jury would think it was a case of “buyer’s remorse.”
jerks
CO Senate Candidate Ken Buck: Gayness = Alcoholism, Rape Allegations = ‘Buyer’s Remorse’
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the crustybastard
Not to defend this particular schmuck, but he’s right — lots of juries do exactly that.
The standard of evidentiary proof that people have come to expect (having exposed themselves to a steady diet of totally unrealistic TV police procedurals) means that criminals — especially sex criminals — are released back into society by courts every day.
Most juries are sent to deliberate with the idea “it’s a he-said/she-said case.” Juries aren’t allowed to learn about the defendant’s lengthy record of prior arrests on the same complaint, over and over and over and over. They have no idea that it’s actually a he-said/she-, she-, she-, she-, she-, she- and she-said case.
DISCLAIMER: The previous statements were not written to condone manufacturing evidence, prosecutorial misconduct, falsification of claims, or the fact that some combination of these things has led to some horrifying miscarriages of justice.
Samwise
If this asshole is elected, that’s it – I’m moving.
Oh screw it, I say that every two years.
robert in nyc
So when did Buck choose his “lifestyle”? I’ve never heard a heterosexual’s orientation labelled a “lifestyle” which implies choice. I wonder why. I wouldn’t mind betting that some bisexuals agree that it is a choice and they wonder why we have a hard time with some of them.