The Accusers

intoxicated and unconscious woman and was given six months in jail, but due to good behavior he was let out three months earlier. His accuser is trying to recoup emotionally about the trial. Nate Parker, the producer of Birth of a Nation and former Penn State student was innocent of raping an unconscious woman in 2001 due to the fact that they had sexual relations before. His accuser committed suicide due to an emotional fallout. For three years an Oklahoma cop, Daniel Holtzclaw raped 13 poor…

hysteria of 1692? Age, gender, marital status, notoriety, and a divided town. One cause of the witch trial hysteria was age, gender, and marital status. According to Document B, twenty-nine of the of the accusers out of thirty-four accusers were females. Twenty-one out of twenty-seven female accusers were under the age of twenty accusing mostly married women that lived in the eastern, richer area of Salem that have husbands…

preliminaries to and rules for a trial. If the accuser orders the offender to court, the offender must go. If the offender does not show, the accuser must call a witness. If the offender avoids the situation, the accuser may fight him but if the offender cannot do so because of physical issues, he can build a team to do these duties. For a landowner, he must be his own security but for the working-class, he may let anyone protect him. Once the accuser and offender come to an agreement, the judge…

we see how Hauthorn continually attacks her and further rejects her propositions by bombarding her with indirect acquisitions with further questioning. He evidently accepts the accusers' allegations, but refuses to take into consideration Bishop's statements. For instance, in the midst of Bishop's questioning an accuser, Mercy Lewes, intervenes stating how she had came to their home late at night. John indirectly justifies her supposed accusation saying "tell us the truth in this matter how…

In Hammurabi’s law code the accuser had the same burden of proof and could use evidence and witnesses to help, just as our laws are today, but in his code if things did not go right the judge, the accuser, and the accused could all be punished and put to death. Although the judge could not change his ruling, if it was found that the judge made any kind of error it was punishable by death. If the accuser did not provide proof of his accusation, he could be put to death…

16 % of women and about 34 % of lesbians or gays has been sexual abused. 1 in 3 women will experience some form of sexual violence during their lives. Approximately 1 in 8 women will be raped sometime during their lifetimes and 78.7% of victims were first assaulted before their 18th birthday. Only about 9.8% of rapes were reported to law enforcement. If you try to research “Mormons and sexual abuse” almost nothing pops up. Why is that? Is it because Mormons would partake in activities such as…

of the accusers of the trials, Abigail Williams died unmarried, and was known to live an unfulfilling life after the trials. friend to other accusers later relinquished a public apology for the part she played in the witch trials. “I had no such thing against one of them; but what I did was ignorantly being deluded by Satan,” said Ann Putnam in her apology speech. Here she admits her fault in judgment, while still putting much of the blame off on her religion. The rest of the accusers of the…

process of a criminal investigation is no doubt a difficult ordeal for a victim of sexual assault. However, removing the promise of anonymity would weed out a great number of frivolous accusers and allow the resources of the court to focus on a greater number of cases where there was a great harm done to the accuser and/or the accused continues to pose a legitimate public safety threat. In summary, a sexual assault complainant should not have an automatic right to the publication ban of their…

young girls and older woman,lying teenagers,economic and political power divide between two sides of town.One possiable causecould be the conflict between young girls and older woman,witch involved age, gender, and maritual status. According to the accusers chart on document B there were twenty-nine out of thirty-four people were females twenty-three of twenty-nine were under twenty-one years old. Another possible cause for the salem witch trials was that the girls were good liars and…

teenage girls accused older women of witchcraft, some little girls were drunk with power, and the poor people were jealous of the rich people. There were some teenage girls who were wildly accusing older women left and right. 22 out of 29 of the accusers were in their teens and over 60% of the accused women were 41 years or older (document B). This supports the claim because it’s very likely that it was teenagers that accused the old folk.…