If only we could turn the Dominique Strauss-Kahn case over to the writers of “Law & Order” to provide the order we crave. It violates our sense of justice to have one of our front-page dramas end without a finding of right and wrong.
What the DSK story shows — as did Casey Anthony and O.J. Simpson before — is that the legal process and our sense of justice aren’t the same. Forensic evidence collected by the police — semen, saliva, ripped pantyhose, a torn ligament, vaginal bruising — was sufficient corroboration of Nafissatou Diallo’s complaint to pull DSK out of his first-class seat on Air France. It was enough for many of us to question his innocence, even after her many embellishments and lies.
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