Comment on The Golden Rule: He who has the gold makes the rules.
gingernate@lemmy.world 8 months agoA conviction leads to sentencing (normally) in a criminal matter. A cival court is settling a cival matter, not a criminal one. Criminal courts convict you of a crime and sentence you to some kind of punishment. Cival courts can make you pay a fine, but not convict you of a crime.
Daft_ish@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Again, another argument of semantics.
gingernate@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Sure, he’s a rapist. But not a convicted rapist. That’s all that’s being said
Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
That would be a more accurate statement, yes.
But there’s more to it than just semantics. There’s also the level of certainty - civil trials have a dramatically lower standard of evidence than criminal trials.
So when you say he’s been convicted of rape, you’re saying that 12 people were convinced beyond a reasonable doubt that he committed rape. But that’s not the case - instead a judge was.convinced it was at least slightly more likely than not that he committed rape. That’s a very different standard.