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For each party, what specific crime? Did Jackie ever file a police report? There is still a pending civil lawsuit from the fraternity. That one will probably s

• danieltillett 10y ago
  Criminal defamation. Unfortunatly, this is only on the books in 17 states, but Virginia is one of those states [1]. 1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_defamation_law https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_defamation_law
• phkahler 10y ago
  Jackie is more guilty that Rolling Stone. She created a false story, made false allegations, and threw an administrator under the bus. The allegations she made would have been very serious had they been true. As it stands, the fact that she made FALSE allegations is the serious matter. Yet she will be walking away with no consequences.
• ptaipale 10y ago
  I'm not from the US and don't know how the law there works exactly, but over here, if a person fabricates a libelous story and feeds it to a journalist - however much encouraged by that journalist - and this is published, then the person, the journalist and the publisher are all guilty of libel. For other parties, at least the mob that trashed fraternity building should be prosecuted. Of course one very real victim here is people who actually have been raped or assaulted at campuses. Their stories will now be harder to believe.
  • adrianratnapala 10y ago
    Yes, they are clearly all guilty of defamation, but the question is whether the defamation is a crime or a tort. Nitpick: "libel" is defamation in writing and "slander" is verbal defamation. So perhaps guess Jackie was guilty of slander while RS is guilty of libel.