April 10, 2018: Airhead forensic psychiatrist Barbara Ziv takes the stand as an expert witness at the Bill Cosby rape trial in Pennsylvania.
This was actually a retrial. The first trial ended in a hung jury. Although Tom Mesereau screwed up big (in my humble opinion) by failing to put his client on the stand in either trial, he totally demolished all the rubbish that had been peddled by Gloria Allred and the shameful media circus that hung on her every word. (Mesereau also succesfully defended the totally innocent Michael Jackson).
I have written extensively on the media witch-hunt of Bill Cosby. The Prior Bad Acts Of Gloria Allred establishes reasonable doubt in the Constand case by dint of the word alcohol.
Ziv was brought in to educate the jury about rape myths. When a feminist talks about rape myths she is generally talking about rape truths. For example, the idea that most victims are raped by men they know. Not true. That most rapes go unreported. Not true. And so on.
Andrea Constand was or identified as a lesbian. Cosby had come on to her before, yet she dined with him alone. There was a considerable delay in her reporting of the alleged digital rape – Cosby admitted the sexual encounter, honestly but foolishly. And not only did she maintain contact with him, she bought him a sweater.
In order to explain or rather explain away her behaviour, the prosecution brought in Ziv, the so-called expert witness in the first trial apparently not being persuasive enough (and even further off the planet).
Here is Ziv’s testimony in full including cross-examination.
And here is a blog that trashes it, including extensive comments. It was written in anticipation of the then forthcoming Harvey Weinstein trial.
For more on the chimera of rape trauma syndrome, the reader is referred to this page in the first instance.
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