Jurors have a set of expectations about how rape victims should react, but these expectations aren’t realistic.
A new rape trial study by The University of Nottingham’s Professor Vanessa Munro and University of Leeds researcher Dr. Louise Ellison shows that jurors expect rape victims to fight back against their attackers and sustain physical injuries doing so.
Researchers also found that jurors expect rape victims to report the crime immediately and appear distressed and tearful in court.

In reality, the researchers say that most rape victims don’t offer physical resistance or suffer injury. Also, many victims delay reporting the offense for long periods. Juror …read more

I stumble. I stumble a lot. When I’m bored, when I’m procrastinating, when I’m avoiding sleep – they’re all perfectly acceptable good times for a quick stumble or…um…93.
Stumbling is like the poor girl’s virtual answer to traveling the globe. Whenever I need an escape I know I can scroll my mouse to that lovely little button in the upper left corner of my computer screen and then – ah, yes… International artists’ galleries and instructions on how to survive life. Chicken parrots and, my God, why don’t they have these where I live?
Tonight’s routine stumble was different, however. Tonight, …read more