Consistent evidence.....

"Yes, I kept the dress, Monica style, for six weeks ... but then for some unknown reason decided to wash it...."

"Is this the dress in this photograph?"

"Yes."

"Do you recall when this photograph was taken?"

"No."

"Was it clean and washed at the time of this photograph?"

"Yes."

"It was two weeks after this alleged event.... at a ministerial function.  Do you recall now?"

"Uhh... yes..."

"So you washed that dress... meaning there was no reason to hold onto it in its then state, am I correct?"

Aussie, Aussie - you should never set out to hang a man on an assumption that turns out to be false that the complainant gave consistent sworn evidence....... and papering that over with an assertion that she was consistent will not wash.

We get that you miss the courts and the game playing, being disbarred and all, but seriously....

My apologies.

Roll

Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Oct 24^th, 2022 at 8:12pm:


I have no idea where you get that bullshit from Grappler......but you are quite wrong.  Explain yourself.

I rest my case - clearly you have not been following this case from the outset....

That's what went through.... the six weeks (damn - six MONTHS) kept due to trauma dress was washed and worn two weeks after the event at a ministerial function.... that's how it was....

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/oct/06/brittany-higgins-kept-dre...



The court was shown photos of the white dress Higgins was wearing during a night of heavy drinking and an early morning visit to Parliament House with Lehrmann, who the court has heard said he had needed to pick up documents.

Higgins was asked what she had done with the dress after the alleged rape. She told the court she had kept it in a plastic bag, unwashed and untouched, for six months.

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“I wasn’t sure because of all the party political stuff how I could proceed or whether I could proceed without losing my job,” she said. “So I kept it there. It was like this weird anchor for me.”

She has since washed it in what she described as a symbolic act, and wore it only once more and never again, the court heard.

But, under cross-examination, Higgins was forced to concede she was mistaken in her evidence about the length of time the dress sat under her bed.

Steven Whybrow, counsel for Lehrmann, showed the court a photo of Higgins wearing the dress the month following the alleged rape, at a pre-birthday event for Reynolds in Perth.

“It stayed under my bed for a period of time, I was wrong in saying it was six months,” Higgins said."

Aussie wrote on Oct 24^th, 2022 at 8:35pm:


Sounds like I've hurt you, Aussie - I apologise.

AusGeoff wrote on Oct 23^rd, 2022 at 8:04pm:


Geoff, quite frankly, you're being hysterical. And it's a little alarming.

There is simply no talking to you if you don't calm your farm. I've at no point even begun to speculate on anyone's guilt or innocence in this case. I've simply asked a few questions to what i've considered utterly ridiculous comments.

For instance, the fact that Higgins woke was woken, naked and alone in a ministerial office is indeed circumstantial evidence. I don't think you understand what circumstantial evidence actually is if you claim it's not. But then again, you thought she may have just fancied a shower.

Circumstantial evidence is "evidence" that may sway a decision but is not in itself evidence of the fact. As in, it may cause a jury to decide a certain way but it's not in itself a smoking gun.


As to the accusation that i am acting like a "Lisa Wilkinson clone" i mean, get your hand off it. I've seen the disgusting, sexist and reactionary terms you've used to describe her in this thread. All for reporting on a piece that disclosed NO names and simply told one woman's story.

A story you seem quite unnervingly determined to discredit in the most base ways available to you.

And then you have the nerve to accuse me of being "judge, jury and executioner"? For asking a few questions?

What questions have you been asking, Geoff? Over the allegation a woman was raped.

Tell me again Geoff ... what was Brittany wearing? What time was it? How much had she been drinking? Is she a reliable witness?

We women have heard it all before. For a very, very, very long time.

And look, for even questioning you, i'm relegated to Lisa Wilkinson's adjectives.