MSNBC Legal Analyst: It’s a ‘Disservice’ to Cross-Examine Trump Rape Accuser

That is what passes for an MSNBC authorized “analyst.” On Jonathan Capehart’s Saturday morning present, MSNBC authorized analyst Glenn Kirschner stated that cross-examining individuals who declare to be sexual assault victims, resembling Trump accuser E. Jean Caroll, is a “disservice.”

Kirschner grudgingly acknowledged that the Sixth Modification—that inconvenient factor!—provides defendants the proper to confront and cross-examine their accusers.  However Kirschner stated that as a former prosecutor, it was “heartbreaking” for him to see sexual assault victims “falsely accused of creating tales up.” 

However how is a jury alleged to determine who’s being “falsely accused”—the accuser or the individual being accused—except the accuser is subjected to cross-examination? And who made Kirschner the arbiter of who’s telling the reality and who’s “making tales up?” 

The actual “disservice” can be to justice—if Kirschner’s notion had been ever adopted, and sexual assault accusers had been merely taken at their phrase.

For that matter, what if Tara Reade, who has accused Joe Biden of getting sexually assaulted her, determined to deliver go well with? Assume Kirschner would go on tv to bemoan the proper of Biden’s legal professionals to cross-examine her? Rhetorical query.

Kirschner would have made the right Alice In Wonderland authorized analyst: sentence first, verdict later. Off with Trump’s head!

MSNBC authorized analyst Glenn Kirschner saying that it’s a “disservice” to cross-examine individuals alleging sexual assaults, resembling the girl accusing Donald Trump, was sponsored partly by Verizon, Progressive, Wayfair, Amazon, and Flonase.  

This is the transcript.

MSNBCThe Saturday Present With Jonathan Capehart4/29/239:19 am EDT

JONATHAN CAPEHART: Let’s flip our consideration to Manhattan. E. Jean Carroll gave emotional testimony this week, and confronted robust cross-examination by Trump’s lawyer, Joe Tacopina, who repeatedly pressed her on why she did not combat again or scream. And he or she replied, lastly, quote, I am telling you, he raped me, whether or not I screamed or not. Will that protection technique backfire on the jury, with the jury?

GLENN KIRSCHNER: I, I can not think about it is resonating with the jurors. No person can accuse Joe Tacopina of getting a lightweight contact with an alleged sexual assault sufferer.

I used to be a prosecutor for 30 years. I attempted rape instances, sexual assault instances, I labored with victims of crime.

And it is heartbreaking, fairly frankly, to see individuals who have really been sexually assaulted in a public kind, in, in a public trial with plenty of individuals watching. They’re falsely accused of creating these tales up. 

I perceive the defendant has a Sixth Modification proper to confront and cross look at his accuser. However, boy, it simply appears like we simply do a disservice to sexual assault victims.