It is worth embarrassing the accuser, to avoid the risk of a wrongful conviction and possibly spare an innocent defendant years in prison. |
Naturally the defence subjected all this to microscopic scrutiny, and sought to portray the accuser as a fantasist. |
The reflexive hostility that some of his defenders have shown toward his accuser therefore exhibits no fidelity to the presumption of innocence. |
The accused country has to prove its innocence, the accuser has to prove nothing. |
After all, accusations of bias usually say more about the accuser than the accused. |
Radical feminists were in a frenzy that the judge had decided to allow DNA evidence which painted his accuser as a floozy. |