Bill Cosby, What the Frick?

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Quote: Fleastiff

Bill Cosby: No recent developments, despite all the press in Hollywood about 'everyone knew' no prosecutors have indicted him in ANY jurisdiction.

Bill Cosby is just a successful rapist.

There's clearly some reasons why he was successful.

A lot of rapists don't always pick people who looked up to them but when they do they are usually more successful for longer periods of time. The farther you get from stranger rapes to people they know or are suppose to respect the more difficult for victims to report. (friends, family members, religious figures, teachers, coaches they respect or love or star struck by big time entertainers they also admire_

Bill Cosby often didn't try to repeat. He didn't have to.

He knocked his victims out. Many clearly weren't sure what exactly what happened at first. The situation was years ago where there wasn't as much as an idea that a victim consent is very important, and not so much what was she doing there in the first place. Kinda like, sure if I am in a really bad neighborhood I might bring a robbery on me, but it's still a crime if I'm robbed, even in the worse situation in the world.

The amount of force used on his victims which they could have exaggerated if they wanted too, was a about as forceful as an unwanted pass. That was in his favor, but it's still not consent. Nor did his victims ultimately believe they had in good faith consented.

I might also note none of his defenders were in the room at the time either.

He was lucky.

If you find someone drunk and passed out on the streets, no matter how much you think about how they may have brought the situation on themselves, you still can't commit a crime against them, and go rifle through their pockets or whatever.

Quote: rxwine

If you find someone drunk and passed out on the streets, no matter how much you think about how they may have brought the situation on themselves, you still can't commit a crime against them, and go rifle through their pockets or whatever.

Nope, but a segment of the population thinks
you can. They think if you leave something
in your yard, it's fair game. Or they can enter
your house if it's unlocked. A black kid got
caught stealing an empty bank bag out of
my wife's car years ago and his defense was,
the window was down. He really thought he
could legally take it.

Quote: Evenbob

A black kid got caught stealing an empty bank bag out of my wife's car years ago and his defense was, the window was down. He really thought he could legally take it.

Yes, and a school student thought that his shooting one guy when he thought it was someone else he was shooting at made it equivalent to an accident. So he freely and repeatedly confessed to the "accident" which was of course charged as premeditated murder.

But does all this stuff have to do with police and judicial creation of a witch hunt?

Quote: Fleastiff

Yes, and a school student thought that his shooting one guy when he thought it was someone else he was shooting at made it equivalent to an accident. So he freely and repeatedly confessed to the "accident" which was of course charged as premeditated murder.

But does all this stuff have to do with police and judicial creation of a witch hunt?

Hey, if I was sitting on a jury, I might be one of those witnesses who gets interviewed afterwards saying, sadly, we could not convict him.

Do you think such jurors go home thinking the person was innocent? That's never been my impression.

Not proven is different than not guilty.

Quote: Evenbob

...his defense was,
the window was down. He really thought he
could legally take it.

San Francisco Police put bait bicycles under video surveillance and then wait for a thief to steal the bike. If the thief rides off before cops can respond, there's a hidden GPS tracking device inside the bike. Critics say that this is entrapment, but the police say that the bikes are locked up, so a thief really has to make an effort to break the lock and steal the bike. (These aren't just bikes left abandoned on the sidewalk.)

I have kept a $100 bill I found at a casino, even though ethically I probably had an obligation to forfeit the $100 to the casino cops so that they could use video surveillance to find the rightful owner. Paigowdan can explain to me how I'll be rotting in hell for eternity.

Look at the show Bait Car. They leave
a new Escalade in a bad neighborhood
with the keys in it and arrest them when
they steal it. What's entertaining is the
lies they tell about why they took it.

Quote: reno

I have kept a $100 bill I found at a casino, even though ethically I probably had an obligation to forfeit the $100 to the casino cops so that they could use video surveillance to find the rightful owner. Paigowdan can explain to me how I'll be rotting in hell for eternity.

I follow the Golden Rule just like FrGamble would advise. (But a hundred I might act differently.)

Golden rule. Let's say a 20 dollars.

Me, I lose a 20 and just notice it. If I think it's recent, so retrace my steps. If it's there, great I pick it up. If not, I go dang someone got here before me. But I never think of the person as a thief. Golden Rule says if I don't think someone is a thief, then why would I be one under the same circumstances.

So, now I'm walking along, see a 20 on the sidewalk. Look around see if there is anybody who I see might have dropped it. If so, I ask them if they dropped any money, and give it back. If no one is around, I can't do this..

Reasonable options: ignore it. Likely result. Unless it's really in a out of the way place, someone else will pick it up who it doesn't belong to.
So, I figure, I will pick up. Not worth putting up a notice about. Like I said, maybe a hundred I would take more specific action to let someone recover it. Put up a sign and ask did you lose some money and a phone number. Name amount to get it back. But that is probably a way to get a bunch of boneheads calling you so, I might not.

Yeah, maybe if I'm walking in a poverty stricken area where the daily average wage is $1 a day, I'll just give it to someone. But I'm usually not doing that.

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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A lawyer for Bill Cosby argued Friday that it would be “terribly embarrassing” for the comedian if documents from a 2005 sex-assault lawsuit were unsealed.

Cosby is fighting efforts by The Associated Press to unseal motions from a lawsuit he settled with a former Temple University employee.

The lawsuit accused Cosby of drugging and sexually assaulting the woman at Cosby’s home. The settlement is confidential.

Cosby’s lawyer argued that his client’s deposition could reveal details of Cosby’s marriage, sex life and prescription drug use.

“It would be terribly embarrassing for this material to come out,” lawyer George M. Gowen III argued.

He said the public should not have access to what Cosby was forced to say as he answered questions under oath from the accuser’s lawyer nearly a decade ago.

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2015/06/27/cosby-lawyer-unsealing-documents-terribly-embarrassing-for-comedian/