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M.Ted | BS: victim recants... Convicted stay in jail (35) | RE: BS: victim recants... Convicted stay in jail | 22 Oct 09 |
Bruce--with all due respect, in criminal cases, it is the prosecutor, on behalf of the state, who makes the charges, not the victim. The victim may not be even give testimony (in murder trials, for instance, the victim is almost never sworn in)--Juries seldom decide a case based on the victim's allegations alone, and in many cases, what the victim claims has little to do with what the jury decides. |