Mr. Farrow apparently don't believe in the presumption of innocence. He talks about "women everywhere with allegations of sexual assault that have never been vindicated by a conviction." Maybe there's a reason for the lack of a conviction. Maybe the abuse didn't happen. Maybe they charged the wrong guy. Maybe the allegations are the product of planted, fabicated or faulty memories. Does anyone remember the McMartin Preschool Cases? Maybe the eyewitness evidence was faulty. Maybe the cops manipulated a false confession. Maybe there was no crime because the act was between consenting adults.
My sympathies are with those who are languishing in our prisons with credible claims of innocence, not those who doggedly insist on re-airing dirty laundry decades after the fact, when no conviction was obtained.
Check out the National Registry of Exonerations:
The National Registry of Exonerations is a project of the University of Michigan Law School. It was founded in 2012 in conjunction with the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University School of Law. The Registry provides detailed information about every known exoneration in the United States since 1989—cases in which a person was wrongly convicted of a crime and later cleared of all the charges based on new evidence of innocence.
There have been 1,789 exonerations since 1989. Sex crimes account for the 476 of them, second only to homicide/manslaughter. As of February, 2016, 27% of the total number of wrongful convictions were for sexual assault (this figure includes 11% wrongly convicted of child sex abuse.)
Among exonerations in specific crime categories:
- The rate of Perjury or False Accusations is highest in child sex abuse cases (83%) and homicide cases (68%).
- The rate of Official Misconduct is highest in homicide cases (64%) and child sex abuse (39%).
- The rate of Mistaken Identifications is highest in adult sexual assault cases (70%).
- The rate of False or Misleading Forensic Evidence is highest in adult sexual assault cases (31%) and homicide (23%).
In this country, a person who has not been convicted is presumed innocent. It's a sleight of hand to twist allegations that have not been proven into allegations that have not yet been vindicated.
Cafe Society stars Jesse Eisenberg, Steve Carell, Kristen Stewart, Cory Stoll, Parker Posey and Blake Lively.
Set in the 1930s, Cafe Society centers on Bobby Dorfman (Eisenberg) who is caught between conflicting parents and a gangster brother. Escaping to Hollywood, he finds his uncle Phil (Steve Carell), a powerful agent of stars who agrees to hire him as courier.
Three clips are available here.