Our legal system needs to defer to sexual violence experts and research.
“Just as we should for COVID, the legal system needs to apply specialized knowledge” Mar 12, 2021. Opinion by Julie Macfarlane
The struggle over who tells us what to do (and who to believe) in order to stay safe during the pandemic — politicians? anti-maskers? scientists and doctors? — is strangely similar to watching the legal system struggle with adjudicating a sexual assault or rape trial.
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