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Share She waited three months to report. She has a boyfriend who was angered by the situation. Sex-themed text messages may have been exchanged before the night in question, and ones suggesting another meeting may have been sent after. She has a Facebook page upon which she posted “nothing out of the ordinary” during the month where the alleged [...] Share “There is no vulnerability without danger.” Veronique Nicole Valliere, Psy.D. It’s a simple and brilliant truth, introduced to me at a sex assault prosecution training in 2009. The doc was discussing how we blame women (and men) who are sexually assaulted, particularly when their choices leading up to the attack make them, in most minds, “more [...] Share Death comes for us all. And while it seems to have come with relative and merciful swiftness for Joseph Paterno, there are many who believe that the man truly died in November of last year when his Valley was flooded with sick, pale light and a stinking truth stirred in its glare. Death was not [...] Share It’s really not a secret: I have a pretty strong ‘anima‘ or feminine side. I don’t resent it. I think it’s made me a much more effective special victims prosecutor over the years. And in any event it’s who I am. My closest circle of male friends will readily confirm that I navigate those friendships [...] Share “Presumed Innocent” was perhaps the one book that led me more than any other into law school and prosecution. In it, Scott Turow describes “Brownian Movement,” the apparently random collision of particles in the air, resulting in a hum that children can sometimes hear before the bones of the inner-ear harden in puberty. Turow’s character, a [...] |
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