{"id":2355,"date":"2006-05-15T10:45:29","date_gmt":"2006-05-15T17:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/05\/15\/what-if-the-latest-enron-trial-ruling-were-applied-to-rape-cases\/"},"modified":"2006-05-15T10:45:29","modified_gmt":"2006-05-15T17:45:29","slug":"what-if-the-latest-enron-trial-ruling-were-applied-to-rape-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=2355","title":{"rendered":"What If The Latest Enron Trial Ruling Were Applied To Rape Cases?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/rssclick\/2006\/LAW\/05\/10\/enron.reut\/index.html?section=cnn_topstories\">CNN<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The judge at the trial of former Enron CEOs Jeffrey Skilling and Ken Lay handed prosecutors a strategic victory Wednesday, saying he would tell jurors that &#8220;deliberate ignorance&#8221; of fraud at the collapsed energy company was not a justifiable defense. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If prosecutors in criminal rape cases were allowed to show jurors that the defendant practiced &#8220;deliberate ignorance&#8221; and the jury was told that this practice is not a justifiable defense, many of the &#8220;he said\/she said&#8221; defenses would crumble.<\/p>\n<p>This wouldn&#8217;t be unfair to defendants since they would be allowed to show how they verified that they had legal consent.<\/p>\n<p>Also posted on <a href=\"http:\/\/abyss2hope.blogspot.com\">my blog, http:\/\/abyss2hope.blogspot.com <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>***PLEASE NOTE***<br \/>\nThe comments on this post are open to feminist and pro-feminist posters only.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN The judge at the trial of former Enron CEOs Jeffrey Skilling and Ken Lay handed prosecutors a strategic victory Wednesday, saying he would tell jurors that &#8220;deliberate ignorance&#8221; of fraud at the collapsed energy company was not a justifiable &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=2355\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rape-intimate-violence-related-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}