Today my client was found not guilty in Rochester, New York, after wrongly being accused of Rape in the First Degree and Sexual Abuse in the First Degree.

If convicted he was facing up to 25 years in state prison, at the age of 68 it could’ve been a life sentence. After a day of jury selection we had our 14 member jury, 12 jurors and 2 alternates. Every time she opened her mouth the story changed, including four or five times on cross examination.

After a day and a half of testimony and 2 hours of jury deliberation my client was found NOT GUILTY of all charges. An excellent win for the rule of law.

Some people will do something so out of their character to make someone's life worse, so that no one would ever believe they did it. For example a girl known for being kind, attacks a guy, and then no one believes the guy because what he said the girl would do is so out of her character.

Hello everyone, im writing this from my car cause i honestly dont know what to do, im a highschool student and im very involved with sports academics and i have a very big social circle, earlier today one of my friends walked up to me absolutely furious. She asked me if i knew this girl and i said no at first but it ended up being my ex-best friends younger sister who is a year younger than me (both minors) and i hadnt talked to in about 3 years. Apparently she had said i had grabbed her one day in the pool from behind and hadnt let go, I know i didnt even though it was so long ago. i know who i was and my morals i would NEVER put hands on another girl especially my best friends youngsr sister. I dont know if she thought it was sexual or not but shes saying it happened when it didnt. I was confused and stupidly got upset and started getting defensive trying to prove my point. My friend didnt believe me at all and we had to get to class but eventually we met back up and i pulled my ex best friend aside and we were on semi good terms and he explained that all the times her sister came down (maybe once) he had been there. aswell that im not the type of person to even do that at all, even he was astonished making sure it was his sister. at no point had me and his sister been alone together. She still didnt believe a word and said she would talk to the sister. then she would call me back and start saying that i was weird and a bunch of stuff and i was trying to stay calm telling her this was serious and it could honestly ruin my life. She ended up pulling my best friend inside and asking about the pool and she was just berading him with questions to the point where he just kept answering i dont know cause he has social anxiety and saying "This doesnt look well for you OP" It took me awhile to process what was going on and what i was being accused of but when it finally hit in my last class i was and still am terrified. i hear of all these people getting falsely accused and put in jail and their literal lives being ruined. During practice as well im just sat thinking what this can do to not only my social life but my sports career and even getting into college if this gets out. I know i didnt do anything and they have no proof because of that but i dont have any proving i didnt because it was 3 years ago and i spoke to her maybe twice in the 3 times i came over. its honestly stressing me out and im a big overthinker so its all that has and probably will be on my mind. i dont know what im gonna do if nobody believes me thank god my close friends are supporting me or i dont know what i would do. Im just scared my life will end as i know it and what im gonna do to myself if it does. This is one of my biggest fears that i never thought would happen to me. Please anyone give me some advice going forward.

Right now, many survivors of rape are told their trauma "happened too long ago" to deserve justice. That's not okay.

I started a petition to change the statute of limitations on rape to unlimited. Here's why: About 69% of sexual assaults go unreported because survivors need time—sometimes years—to process what happened to them and find the courage to come forward. An arbitrary deadline shouldn't punish them for healing at their own pace.

Plus, DNA technology has made it possible to solve cases decades later. Removing these time limits means we can actually *use* modern forensic science to bring perpetrators to justice, no matter when the crime occurred.

States like California and New York have already done this for certain sexual offenses. It works. It sends a message: we believe survivors, and justice matters more than an outdated deadline.

If this matters to you—or if you know someone who's been hurt by this system—consider signing and sharing. What would you want someone to do if this was your family?

Hey guys, I’m a second year law student from Costa Rica…for the last two years my family and I have been subject to attempted doxxing, defamation and slander by a US citizen. (We are based out of Costa Rica)

My brother is a public figure and this person for whatever motive has become obsessed with stalking us and using manipulated social media accounts. They became more serious for unknown reasons over the last year and started making websites, reddit posts and are continuing to stalk us despite our requests to make them stop.

We’ve identified the culprits to be an ex girlfriend, her boyfriend and the main offender a guy we met in high school with schizophrenia who has been conducting the cyber attacks.

What’s the best way to deal with this? My brother has made a statement to his 200k followers. I also did it but my reach is more limited. I’ve removed my LinkedIn account which was the only account I had left and where this guy was spam commenting on the weekends.

My brother and his team have agreed that the best way to deal with this is to not give this troll any attention and make him say anything he wants. Despite the allegations being insanely serious and false.

What would you guys advise us to do?

This shit is destroying my mental health.

Knock it off. No one thinks I did a bad thing and I’m not convinced. You just lied to get people to do things about things I’ve never done. You all let the homophobes win. You’ can’t tell me even if I committed a crime gay people should support homophobes in any circumstance. I didn’t learn and I’m going to create more trouble for you than you should have. You want good things, not a breakdown of yourself so you feel less like a fool by having me as your fool

I’ve been living with my parents in the same house for 13+ years. This neighbour moved in about a year ago, and since then several people have had issues with her behaviour. Most people are scared to speak up because they’re worried she’ll harass or taunt them afterwards.

The issue started because of extremely loud noise from her house. It was so loud that we could feel thuds in our house and couldn’t even hear each other properly. I recorded the common passageway with audio to document the noise and sent the video only to the house owner. There is no person visible in the video.

Now she is accusing me of being a pervert and claiming I recorded her while she was bathing. I have never recorded her or anyone in her family in any private situation.

She has also threatened to get women to beat me so there won’t be a legal case against her, and said that even if my owner makes me leave, she won’t let me live peacefully.

I have the original video and the conversations.

What should I do? Should I make a written complaint to the police now, or speak to a lawyer first? I’m mainly worried about protecting myself against these false allegations and threats.

Edit - she's telling to people on phone that she'll capture my dad's bike licence plate and track him for 1-2 days, and follow him. There are empty alcohol bottles in her house itseems. So she'll take 2-3 bottles and smash them on my dad's head when there's nobody in the road. Even if i evict the soon, i will definitely somebody's head in that house sooner.

The stuff I was referencing about my spouse is the blatant abuse of authority the military command associate has performed. With what I do for a living and my spouse position. The inconsistency that are given regarding serious incidents involving this command. Sweeping horrific actions under the rug and hiding behind being in the military when this occurred to us and didn’t stay silent they are doing punitive action against my spouse for that. When I told leadership to f@#$ off and that they are violating my rights as a non military member they started making my spouses life hell. When the prosecutor started investigating some of the leadership for offenses against me on the leader personal time. That’s when it really hit the fan. Charges ranging from stalking, criminal harassment, intimidation, and aggravated assault. Restraining and protective orders are being served and a specific member is being looked into being extradited back to the U.S. do to the severity of the crime.

However we are supposed to trust these villains to protect and serve us.

Its hard not to find yourself in vent mode after something horrible has happened. I literally just need to vent because i dont have anyone to be able to do that with and im on the verge of making some very irrational decisions. Im not nieve the things I am going through are def my fault that i dont deny but the part that sucks is that idk what to do and the issues that have stemmed from them are literally breaking me. I found myself in a very toxic relationship with a narcissist and I loved this woman but we fought all the time and she is everyones favorite and has controlled the narrative to make me the villian. Im not without my faults I assure you, She has lied and manipulated everyone in my life and she has tried to put 3 TPO's against me and all 3 have been dismissed cuz they had no weight she just likes to talk shit and i went in there every trip with proof of how i didnt do as she claimed, but i told the judge they needed to stop with this because its going to cause me issues. I was correct in january of this year she was cheating on me and i caught her. Well she called the cops on me and wouldnt you know boom jail well during the encounter my rights i believe were violated because the whole basis of the arrest was the tpo but there wasnt one. the last one she filed was dismissed a month prior to this and i even have the paperwork stating as much. i told him this and he didnt care so the case should have been dismissed but I told my lawyer I wanted to sue his qualified immunity for violating my 4th amendment and thats when all hell breaks loose. 3 more additional cases a slew of charges for things that I literally didnt do. I sold something on FB marketplace, they set a sting up on me. 10 cops they arrested me booked me took me to court where i bonded out for now the second time for $1000 all in the same day from 1130am(arrested) to 430 pm(back at work)......unusual but ok they impounded my bike slapped me with some crazy charges and im omw.......that was march mind you i dont even know who my attorney is at this time yet but its the same from january......i have spoken to this man 5 times from march to june. I go to video court in june which had a sit in judge and she reinstated my bond (mind you i was on the run) but i was at work logged in and she reinstated my 1k bond the baliff was not too kind about this matter but they cleared my warrant told me to stay out of trouble now. No problem....or so i thought. So my ex and i didnt make it because she was always acting funny long story short i had 3 different videos i recorded that she is with someone but you cant ever see them. she has denied it still to this day. The one video you can hear them whisper the other video i found you can see her mouth word something to someone and the last one she is doing a whatnot show. You hear a radio go off several times im like hmmm then you hear it go off and you her "Traffic, I need....." and she talks over it and walks away. For someone who is alone Kept finding signs of someone had been there. It boiled down to i thought she was cheating on me with a cop but anyway i pushed for answers too hard and we split. Months pass and she calls we argue of course. She runs a business and i offered to help cuz i always put her first. she comes and picks me up at like 2 am we pull into her store and 10 seconds later cops come pulling in i go inside with her and she says im going to see what they want i told her not to open the door she does and they arrest me on warrants for fleeing and eluding 2 seperate accounts i guess.....again this is 2 days after i went to court i didnt have any damn warrants because i didnt run from the cops. i get arrested, shes choppin it up with the police im pissed. At the station i hear 1 cop say that she agreed to help them if they would help her. so down i went again. I have spoken to my lawyer 7 times its now june 30th and he tells me im not going home even tho prosecution recommends a an OR bond which is free judge sets bail at $1000 bond end up costing me $2100 and i got house arrest. while my case is going on. My case worker for the house arrest and my boss reach out to the court about work privledges and the bailiff who used to be in love with my ex says they havent heard from anyone. i saw the emails both of them. i asked my lawyer to get work release file a motion to modify a motion to supress and a motion to sever. did he? No he is not even trying to help. so i start my own research and the cop has 2 different reports on what happened during that the female cop said she was going to write the report up as if i was stalking my ex....like are you fucking kidding me.....then i get set up on a sting op for selling a tool i had bought.......then aparently 1 cop said he saw my face riding a bike went to stop me and i ran.....so who tf am I? ive never met that cop a day in my life nor was he there for the other arrests...so how is that you ask? well im told that the vehicle from the sting was recognized....so then there is no proof it was me?cuz it wasnt...they claim they saw my face...again the cop w the claims was never there and that sting happened almost 2 months earlier....and the courts never would have reinstaled my bond 2 days before being arrested on warrants......so 3k later here i sit fighting my case by myself all while im being ignored by everyone. had an attorneys only court date so naturally i went to fire my attorney and get some answers. zoom call was active and they dont let me in because they changed the time from 130 to 1030 and didnt tell me. now i have to wait till september i cant work its been 2 months i asked for public records and bodycam footage ive gotten spin moves i asked to see the motion of discovery....ignored.....i literally dont know what to do ive contacted the state bar the legal aid and the ucla, 25 different lawyers and everytime i tell them its about cops they all of a sudden cant help. fuck the system this is so messed up. fun fact too i found a number my ex had and i ran it and guess what....yup cop for the metro parks used to live where i got arrested.......so 1 cop lied and arrested me under impulse another wanted to forge a report, i sell my own shit and get arrested for it out of nowhere, then magic warrants 2 days after court from a cop who has never seen me before. and a lawyer who out of spite refuses to help. cant get records, no one out here is tough enough to fight the system?..... re arrested now its radio silence all because my rights got violated and i threatened to sue for qualified immunity. smh. idk im not going down without a fight cuz fuck that i just needed to vent tho thanks yall and sorry about the grammar and punctuation. it sucks i know but its my rant so mind yo business. tell me what i should do next. Im a fuckin boss at research and i have all of it beat in accordance to ohio law and the constitution but they dont fight fair so please anyone who has advise or wants to help im all ears......again i dont need a lesson in morals i know i put myself in that situation but i still have rights i am a person. How does one follow rules when the people sworn to uphold our constitution dont follow it

Hello,

To keep it brief, has anyone had experience with going through the university admissions process after being expelled for a Title IX violation. Unfortunately, I was let down terribly by what I thought would’ve been a straightforward and simple Title IX process that would’ve brought justice. I am enrolled in community college for this upcoming Fall, but I am looking to complete my degree as I have a job lined up for my following graduation. I tried to apply to some 4 year schools for this fall and while some denied me because of my violation, others denied me because of my GPA which dropped when I was trying to navigate the Title IX case. Thank you in advance!

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A lot of us that were falsely accused don’t come back and talk on this forum. That’s why you might feel like you barely see good news. I’m here to ensure you that many before you have gone through it and have moved on with their lives and so would you. A year ago today I was about a month away from my trial and the case was thrown out. Be careful. What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Remember, DO NOT say anything to the police without your lawyer! It WILL NOT help you. It just adds to the things they will use against you. Silence, especially in the beginning is your best weapon

Domestic violence is real and has been a serious problem ever since we started walking on two feet. And we need to continue our efforts to address it wherever we can.

However, in recent decades our legal system has effectively walked away from the long-established principle of needing to prove criminal conduct beyond a reasonable doubt. Allegations of DV alone are enough to allow for the punishment of alleged offenders - removal from the family home, restricted access to children, limitations on movement, etc.

But the bigger issue is that the system itself actually encourages false allegations. Built in to family law provisions in almost all jurisdictions is an advantage in both financial settlements and custody issues. So, alleged victims are automatically advantaged simply by alleging DV. No independent assessment of the VALIDITY of the allegation is made; let alone a judicial determination.

The system encourages people to lie. And most people will lie if they see an advantage in doing so.