[temp8964]

A. They tested the suspect's children's DNA and got a positive.

B. It's true sperm doesn't equal murder. But in this case the victim was asexually assaulted and then murdered. The likelihood of both crimes committed by the same person is way higher than two different persons.

[vmception]

Does my reasonable doubt count?

The fall guy they pulled in for a raped and murdered jogger in NYC was willing to confess and then was like "woah woah I didn't do the rape where did that charge come from"

There could just as easily be a Brock Turner in the woods seeing an incapacitated girl and fiddling around, except this time the victim would already be or about to be dead.

Too many examples for me to make that conclusion. So, my reasonable doubt would count if I was on the jury. Convicting/Acquitting someone is one thing, we all pat ourselves on the back, but the thing that really bothers me is when the dangerous person is still out there. Who cares about debating the doubt when there is a greater likelihood of ongoing danger in the community but now the investigation isn't even happening. Its debating someone's freedom versus debating the safety of the community which is a larger group of people, the greater doubt is actually about whether the community is now safe instead of whether I like this person's alibi.

[valuearb]

So you think the accused killers family would be much happier if they found out he didn’t kill either of them, just had sex with the dying girl and left her to die?

[vmception]

That's where your mind went. In this article, it would be just as easy for them to have had consensual sex beforehand.

The feelings of the family is not a factor in investigating and prosecuting the right people.

[bytelines]

> That's where your mind went

This is in the post he's replying to:

> There could just as easily be a Brock Turner in the woods seeing an incapacitated girl and fiddling around, except this time the victim would already be or about to be dead.

Brock Turner is a well known recent case of rape, the rapist (Brock Turner) sexually assaulted an unconscious woman before two graduate students intervened.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_v._Turner

[vmception]

Except they were conflating the examples with the article along with the Brock Turner reference

Its almost impossible to respond except in the way that I did

Half the parent level comments are also saying semen isn't a great for helping with anything except investigating a sexual assault

[valuearb]

> “ There could just as easily be a Brock Turner in the woods seeing an incapacitated girl and fiddling around, except this time the victim would already be or about to be dead.”

You posited he could have merely raped the dying victim (semen isn’t left by “fiddling around”). I ask you again whether hit matters if he was a rapist-murderer or merely a rapist of bound murder victims.

Reasonable doubt doesn’t mean constructing convoluted scenarios to explain how he left his semen in her without raping or murdering her. Occams Razor falls very hard on the obvious answer here.

[vmception]

You will never understand what I wrote.

[valuearb]

Them you should reread what you wrote, maybe out loud, to recognize how unclear it was.

Being able to clearly write your thoughts is an important skill that can be improved with practice.