The answer is complicated — but at least part of the story involves partisanship and New York State’s redistricting nightmare.
that dismissed charges against an upstate man who’d been convicted of first-degree rape. The case had to be thrown out, said Wilson, writing for the 4-2 majority, because prosecutors in St. Lawrence County — despite the victim’s prompt report to the police the day after being raped — did not indict the accused man until four years late and failed to take even basic investigative steps like a DNA test until more than two and a half years after the crime.
“With the majority decision, the scales, once again, weigh against women’s voices,” Judge Madeline Singas wrote in a blistering dissent. “The result is a stunning nullification of a jury’s first-degree rape conviction and the reinforcement of the bleak history of the treatment of sexual assault victims.
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