Was it true, Joseph Tacopina asked Carroll, that she’d once posted on Facebook that she was a “massive” fan of “The Apprentice”? It relies on playing Carroll against a trope that defense attorneys in sexual assault cases have leaned on for decades: Real rape victims act appropriately victimized. Real rape victims scream, call the police, and have lives defined by trauma. “She is really minimizing true rape victims, real rape victims,” Tacopina said in his opening arguments. On the witness stand, Carroll allowed herself to step outside of the mold of how we historically have imagined victims of the kinds of assault Carroll is alleging.

Source: The Herald May 03, 2023 14:39 UTC