Nobody you say? Insincere reading you say? "The DA reviewed sworn testimony of witnesses and claimants that contradicted the claims they made. Including Smithline (…)".
Nobody was proven to be lying, Chidder. That is not the reason why the charges were not filed, and that is an alarmingly insincere reading of this situation.
Lying witness is not a technicailty. Lying accuser is also not a technicailty. It's not like someone made a mistake in the application and the case was dismissed.
prosecute. But there is not *no* evidence. What is your goal in celebrating this, anyway? What is the point you intend to prove by laughing at Manson's accusers being unable to take this to trial?
Wait, now you're pulling formalities? So if someone rapes your daughter but is then cleared on a technicailty, the rape never happened? Is that how "the law works"?
It is absolutely untrue that there was *no* evidence - there was a huge amount of evidence. It was not considered sufficient to win a conviction, which, again, was also to do with the fact that too much time had passed to