| In other news - Alex Salmond has been cleared of sexual assault 16:30 - Mar 23 with 1188 views | GeoffSentence |
I am not a great fan of the 'no smoke without fire' method of justice, but it seems that I am as susceptible as anyone to its subtle charms as I was surprised that he was cleared, and my surprise was based simply on the number of people who came forward. |  |
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| In other news - Alex Salmond has been cleared of sexual assault on 16:41 - Mar 23 with 1132 views | Ryorry |
Whether innocent or guilty, he's certainly been lucky with the timing. |  |
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| In other news - Alex Salmond has been cleared of sexual assault on 16:47 - Mar 23 with 1112 views | J2BLUE |
| In other news - Alex Salmond has been cleared of sexual assault on 16:41 - Mar 23 by Ryorry |
Whether innocent or guilty, he's certainly been lucky with the timing. |
How so? |  |
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| In other news - Alex Salmond has been cleared of sexual assault on 16:55 - Mar 23 with 1078 views | Ryorry |
| In other news - Alex Salmond has been cleared of sexual assault on 16:47 - Mar 23 by J2BLUE |
How so? |
Mega publicity avoided - minds on other things etc. | |
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| In other news - Alex Salmond has been cleared of sexual assault on 16:56 - Mar 23 with 1070 views | J2BLUE |
| In other news - Alex Salmond has been cleared of sexual assault on 16:55 - Mar 23 by Ryorry |
Mega publicity avoided - minds on other things etc. |
This has been well publicised though. Followed him around for at least a year and now he's been cleared when few will hear about it.
I'd say it's bad timing for him. Plenty won't hear he's been cleared and will assume he's guilty. | |
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| In other news - Alex Salmond has been cleared of sexual assault on 16:58 - Mar 23 with 1063 views | Ryorry |
| In other news - Alex Salmond has been cleared of sexual assault on 16:56 - Mar 23 by J2BLUE |
This has been well publicised though. Followed him around for at least a year and now he's been cleared when few will hear about it.
I'd say it's bad timing for him. Plenty won't hear he's been cleared and will assume he's guilty. |
Nothing like the coverage it would have got in normal circumstances though. There was also Brexit beforehand. I'm sure everyone will hear the outcome too. [Post edited 23 Mar 2020 17:00]
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| In other news - Alex Salmond has been cleared of sexual assault on 17:02 - Mar 23 with 1048 views | NotSure |
Didn't follow the case fully but all of the accusations just seemed to be their word against his, with no witnesses or other proof.
Although being Scotland he could have got a "Not Proven" outcome, which is still an acquittal but not a very good one. |  | | |
| In other news - Alex Salmond has been cleared of sexual assault on 17:06 - Mar 23 with 1027 views | StokieBlue |
| In other news - Alex Salmond has been cleared of sexual assault on 16:58 - Mar 23 by Ryorry |
Nothing like the coverage it would have got in normal circumstances though. There was also Brexit beforehand. I'm sure everyone will hear the outcome too. [Post edited 23 Mar 2020 17:00]
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Why would the level of coverage matter if he's been cleared?
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| In other news - Alex Salmond has been cleared of sexual assault on 17:09 - Mar 23 with 1014 views | Ryorry |
| In other news - Alex Salmond has been cleared of sexual assault on 17:06 - Mar 23 by StokieBlue |
Why would the level of coverage matter if he's been cleared?
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All I've said was that he's been fortunate to avoid the massive coverage the whole thing would have received in other times - including kangaroo courts that start on social media, even when some's found innocent.
No need for an argument really. | |
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| In other news - Alex Salmond has been cleared of sexual assault on 17:19 - Mar 23 with 977 views | m14_blue |
| In other news - Alex Salmond has been cleared of sexual assault on 17:02 - Mar 23 by NotSure |
Didn't follow the case fully but all of the accusations just seemed to be their word against his, with no witnesses or other proof.
Although being Scotland he could have got a "Not Proven" outcome, which is still an acquittal but not a very good one. |
Think one of the allegations was found not proven. |  | | |
| In other news - Alex Salmond has been cleared of sexual assault on 17:23 - Mar 23 with 965 views | GeoffSentence |
| In other news - Alex Salmond has been cleared of sexual assault on 17:02 - Mar 23 by NotSure |
Didn't follow the case fully but all of the accusations just seemed to be their word against his, with no witnesses or other proof.
Although being Scotland he could have got a "Not Proven" outcome, which is still an acquittal but not a very good one. |
Twelve charges were 'not guilty', one was 'not proven' | |
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| In other news - Alex Salmond has been cleared of sexual assault on 18:49 - Mar 23 with 882 views | peterleeblue |
| In other news - Alex Salmond has been cleared of sexual assault on 16:41 - Mar 23 by Ryorry |
Whether innocent or guilty, he's certainly been lucky with the timing. |
More to the point the accusers have been lucky with the timing.
AS exercising restraint and will wait until less unsettled times to detail all of the evidence. |  | | |
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