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The investigative process, including the evidentiary process. The criminal justice process, including the role of the grand jury. These are the elements that create due process, along with an understanding that the burden of proof is on the accusers/prosecutors. Just a few things that the radio host pretends to not know/conveniently forgets.
While I take much of what is written on this board as tongue-in-cheek, there are a few who have expressed thoughts and/or sentiments that aren't derived by facts or evidence but rumor, innuendo, and supposition. The more far afield from those facts the more arrogant the stance taken in defending those thoughts/sentiments.
Tom Eoannou, during his press conferences made several hard statements. Most notably that he practices criminal law, and knows nothing of civil law. I believed him when he stated it. So while there are a gamut of suppositions that can be drawn, they all can't be drawn one way without at least considering the other. For example, Kane has a bodyguard who's also a cop from a different jurisdiction. Therefore the thin blue line/code of silence/Against the law types are conspiring to keep Kane free. Eoannou and his partner have a combined 60 years of professional experience, therefore they couldn't/wouldn't risk their careers and reputations to have any role in this situation. He even asked for outside investigators to take over. He could be 100% sincere in everything he's presented and requested, or those 60 years combined experience have granted them a few tricks up their sleeves.
I know for some of you things like a proper investigation, evidence collection and analysis, and the formal process of presenting charges are aspects of the criminal justice system that are needless wastes of time. The "words" you "hear" supports your beliefs, the rest is just so much noise. And now Twitter has become the all encompassing looking glass that delivers both the truths you want to believe, and the sordid underbelly of scum that you not only oppose but prop up to reinforce your sense of self-superiority.
For me, the evidence needs time to be collected and properly analyzed. The investigation should be both broad enough and intensive enough to not only answer as many questions as possible, but to leave the unanswerable limited. The grand jury is a part of the process, but it isn't where innocence or guilt is proven. It is moronic to grasp the GJ in any other fashion.
There was a time in the not too distant history that the evidence didn't need to be collected, the accusation could stand on the word of the accuser, and a rope and a tree were all that was needed for justice. Not too long ago people considered how a situation reflected more upon themselves than whether or not the accussed was guilty of the crime. Where a one size accusation fit all because a man who would steal a loaf of bread to feed his family could just as easily murder out of such desperation. We went through a period of history where rights, rules of order, and due process where either unceremoniously ignored or the ability to have proper representation was quashed.
Prior to last Saturday, what was really known about this situation? It should have been little or next to nothing if all parties were in GJ compliance. Mr. Eoannou stated in his press conference that there have been numerous leaks of what was supposed to be confidential, though (correctly) it wasn't his job to lend any veracity to the content of those leaks. Its why its best to let the process run its course as opposed to trying to keep the situation stoked up at a white hot temperature.
In the mean time, if accusations could be flung and people denied the ability to earn a living, where would we all be? The radio host is a leering and skeevy guy, and could probably take it to the next level. He should be suspended until he can prove that he isn't that guy (oops, Twitter's got him there). His partner used to openly joke about pedophilia, has he changed or just changed his spots? Due to suppressed memory I think there was an incident in the past that involved alcohol and doing something against someone's will. He too should be suspended until he proves that what I'm saying has never happened.
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