Delicious LiveJournal Links for 5-25-2010

[andrewducker]

• Mass Effect movie deal done
  (tags: movies games)
• Stirling builds first council homes since 1985
  And a good thing too.
  (tags: society scotland housing)
• What happened at the end of Flesh and Stone was sexual assault
  (tags: assault sex DrWho)

Comments

[andrewducker]

Those aren't necessarily the consequences of assault. There's no minimum fine of necessity of imprisonment because someone committed assault. The legal system doesn't work in such a black and white way.

[hawkida.livejournal.com]

I don't think she behaved badly enough to be charged with assault, is what I'm trying to say. "Committed assault" = "could be charged with assault" to my mind. I think she was out of order, inappropriate, reacting badly and offering unwelcome advances, but she didn't assault anyone. If that makes me a rape apologist then it's not something I'm comfortable with, but I can see why the article's author thinks there are so many of them around.

[marrog.livejournal.com]

Actually, legally, yes she did. She'd probably have her sentence deferred, but yes, she did.

[andrewducker]

Oh, she definitely did enough to be charged with assault. People have been charged with assault for pinching someone's bum...

[hawkida.livejournal.com]

Wow. I find that a bit scary.

[andrewducker]

The thing is - it's very unlikely to happen by itself. It's there so that someone can be found guilty of a whole bunch of different stuff that, together, make it worth taking someone to court. So that you can charge with with "six counts of assault over a three month period, harrassment, and tresspass" - any individual case would probably get a warning, but you need any individual case to be something you can take into account when things get bad.