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    [Football] Mendy found not guilty

    I suggested he listen to the contributory negligence poem by @attila but he declined. I remain saddened that there are aging males who still cling on to the values of the 80s without any apparent awareness that the world has moved on.
  2. Harry Wilson's tackle

    [Football] Mendy found not guilty

    This seems a bit anti feminist: "Well it doesn't because if the Crown hadn't sought a second trial the feminist lobbyists would've been all over it." If you wrote that intending to convey that it would be an excellent thing for feminist lobbyists to be all over it, I apologise. However that...
  3. Harry Wilson's tackle

    [Football] Mendy found not guilty

    But it wasn't a second trial. It was a different trial. If you are acquitted of an offence this doesn't mean you are forever immune to prosecution. If that were the case I'd have only three points on my driving license. I didn't get the extra points simply to appease the cycling lobby. It...
  4. Harry Wilson's tackle

    [Football] Mendy found not guilty

    I'm not questioning the outcome, Far from it. But the reason these cases often fail is because without forensic evidence it is one word against another. And as you amply illustrate there is the 'contributory negligence*' concept that seems to seep into the minds of the 12 good men on the jury...
  5. Harry Wilson's tackle

    [Football] Mendy found not guilty

    No. One of his accusers claims he said that. Pub talk at best, she made it up at worst.
  6. Harry Wilson's tackle

    [Football] Mendy found not guilty

    And not guilty is still not guilty.

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