A criminal court could take just one victims word for a crime and find someone committed a crime, beyond reasonable doubt.
They said he did this because he did not think authorities would take the victims' word over his if he had to defend himself against sexual assault allegations.
How can you prevent feeling like a victim of betrayed, bamboozled and broken ("victim words," no doubt)?
However, unlike those crimes, there are no questions about what happened with the Manson murders: we know pretty much exactly who did what to whom, when and why, down to some of the victims' last words.
"How beautiful is it that she paired her with the title 'Alive'?" She opened a different drawer and took out another piece — a pair of scruffy brown shoes on the card for Jonathan Kellerman's "Victims," the words "SUSPENSE FICTION" typed across the top.
Guys laugh over their victims' last words, or talk about cutting up body parts or disposing them or how the corpse would defecate or make farting noises.
The victim's words rapidly spread online and made Turner and Persky globally reviled figures overnight.
To come back to life, he makes lists of objects, a therapy suggested by Michael Lazar, a 76-year-old shrink who argues that Zach, a victim of words, must fill the words with the things.
Some hope the Stanford case and the victim's words will push the fight to the next level, but many recognize that there's still a long way to go on campuses, in the court system, and in our society.
After hearing statements from the victim, the prosecutor, Turner, Turner's father, and the defense attorney, Persky prefaced his remarks by quoting the victim's words: "As she writes, 'the damage is done,'" adding that it was his role to "follow the roadmap our system of criminal justice sets out for the court in sentencing decisions".
