Confirmation Case Study

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1. Was the movie Confirmation an accurate replication of your experience, if not what details were altered or left out?
2. After you returned to your hometown, at the end of the trial did your community treat you differently? Were you criticized or supported for standing up?
3. How much progress-if any do you believe we have made as a society today towards injustice and sexual harassment acknowledgment, after your case became public?
4. Did you ever reach out to Angela Wright and want to cooperate with her to re-open your case?
5. Do you believe the Stanford rape victim is facing the same injustices you faced over twenty years ago?
6. The Stanford rape victim wrote a strongly worded letter to her rapist Brock Turner, and released it to the

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