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He was never convicted of that, it was a civil trial not a criminal one.
He was found liable.
Right, the primary difference being that a criminal trial would be that the statue of limitations would restrict what a prosecutor can achieve, while there is no such limitation for civil suits.
The amount of evidence and the case proceeding would be largely similar in both.
So while you are technically correct for calling that out, I just want to be clear that had this been a criminal trial, the result would very likely have been the same from the jury.
Maybe he would have been, I'm not a lawyer or judge.
I just believe in America and innocent until proven guilty, and he wasn't proven guilty of that offense.
His actions and responses around the allegations are gross and unbecoming for sure.
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There's also the vast difference in burden of proof required for a criminal conviction vs a civil trial. It's not only the statute of limitations that was at play here.
Innocent until proven guilty is not a mantra.
It is how the legal system needs to work. It does not mean that your are innocent into proven guilty in the eye of the public, or historical records. It's purely about setting expectations for a working justice system that needs that presumption to function.
That does not mean that a person is innocent and everyone should treat them as if they're innocent until the verdict comes down.
This is an important distinction to make.
Sure, but there's a difference between feeling someone is guilty and stating they were convicted. We shouldn't knowingly be making factually incorrect statements.
It feeds the right when people are so TDS that they are okay with spreading mistruths or fake news.
That's true and fair.
American justice system in a nutshell.
Guy can be found to have done sexual assault, but criminal prosecutors wouldn't touch him because he did it in a city where his close personal friend was the mayor. It took 30 years to reach a judgement against him, and even that was for a relatively piddly sum given the time and effort involved in the pursuit. The thing that really got Trump in trouble wasn't the act of physical and sexual violence. It wasn't the defamation that followed. It was the way he and his lawyer were shitty on the stand in a second trial resulting from his remarks on the results of the first trial.
This is what it takes to bring a rich man to something approaching the possibility justice in America. And even after all this bullshit, there's almost zero chance that a Florida court or Sheriff's Department will assist Carroll in collecting on the damages because... Trump is close personal friends with the governor.
They're definitely not friends. They just follow the same hateful ideology and will put their differences aside for it.
Now that Trump's the inevitably nominee, Ron's falling back into brown-noser mode and will do everything in his power to get Trump to like him. And even if DeSantis wasn't bending over backwards to please the party's kingpin, he wouldn't be terribly inclined to aid a New York feminist and advice columnist in pursuing legal action against The Don.
Yup, he's putting his dislike of Trump aside for the sake of advancing the Christofascist agenda.