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From: tron@fluke.UUCP (Peter Barbee)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: The Dotson Case
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Date: Thu, 23-May-85 15:13:35 EDT
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I have a question about this case, what is/should happen to the
woman who lied?  Maybe it has already happened, I'm not a big news fan.

Should she be sentenced to jail on a perjury charge?  Should she be forced
to serve as much time as the man she falsly accused?  Or should she have her
"hand slapped"?

My personal opinion is that she deserves some punishment - on a par with
what she caused to happen to the man.  Otherwise the fact that she lied will
be used against the prosecution in future rape cases, even though this is
surely a very isolated incident.

Peter B