ABC News Feature, Consent On Campus

It was curious watching the 17-minute presentation at Pennsylvania State University on Nightline. Rape is a crime under American law. Crime under American jurisprudence has two elements, an act, actus reus, and an idea, mens rea, often called intent. The word intent was never mentioned. I was paying attention listening for it. If the matter is a crime, the suspect must have the requisite intent. That is what made/makes rape cases so difficult, and why there were, and are, so many non prosecutions. But under this new system intent is not a concern. 



Consent is the concern. Consent is given by the person acted upon, agreeing to be acted upon. The actor, if criminal the suspect, must obtain consent, so that he or she does not have any criminal intent. That shifted the weight of whether it was crime from the mind of the suspect into the mind of the victim. Without consent it is a crime. No matter what the suspect has in his or her mind. It also facilitates proving crime. What is or was in a suspect's mind is not obvious. But consent can be obvious. But consent raises other difficulties as discussed on that ABC feature, e.g., how long is the consent good for? 

No mention of intent

changing 200 years of common law, and American Jurisprudence

http://abc.go.com/shows/nightline/listing/2016-02/25-022516-consent-on-campus-a-nightline-event

NightlineFebruary 2016
02/25/16: Consent on Campus: A 'Nightline' Event
18:41 02/25/16 NR
Consent on Campus: Can Consent Education Help Prevent Sex Assault Among College Students?; Consent on Campus: What Does Giving Sexual Consent Mean?
ABC News

Chicago ABC Producer Murdered While Vacationing In Belize

Tragic loss: ABC's Executive producer of online operations, Anne Swaney, 39, was kiled in Belize this week where she was vacationing.

[From article]
An ABC producer was killed while vacationing in Belize this week.
Executive producer of online operations, Anne Swaney, 39, arrived last Saturday to Nabatunich Resort, Benque Viejo, according to ABC.
Swaney was allegedly sexually assaulted before being killed after doing yoga on Thursday morning near the Mopan River nearby the resort.
A tour guide found Sawney's yoga mat another items near the river but he didn't see her and alerted the authorities.
Dogs tracked her scent on Thursday night but she was not found until the next morning.
Benque Viejo Police Superintendent Daniel Arzu said that Swaney's injured corpse was found floating on the river. She was wearing just a bra.
She also had lacerations on the side of her head along with bruises on her neck.
'We suspect that she may have been sexually violated,' Arzu said.
'She had bruises around her neck that reveals that there might have been some strangulation or some sort of fight back.'
[. . .]



'She was a trailblazer in the digital news space and was one of our first website employees,' said John H. Idler, president of ABC7.
'Anne helped us evolve our business and our newsroom, but most importantly, she was a kind person who was always had a smile and a positive attitude.'
A State Department official said in a statement: 'We offer our sincerest condolences to her family and loved ones on their loss. Our consular staff is providing all possible consular assistance.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3402147/ABC-producer-murdered-sexually-assaulted-vacation-Belize.html

ABC producer was 'murdered and sexually assaulted while on vacation in Belize'
Producer Anne Swaney, 39, arrived last Saturday to Nabatunich Resort, Benque Viejo in Belize
She disappeared on Thursday after doing yoga by the Mopan River
Swaney's half-naked corpse was found floating on the river on Friday
By ALEXANDRA KLAUSNER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 20:48 EST, 15 January 2016 | UPDATED: 00:19 EST, 16 January 2016

Texas Love Triangle Leaves One Doctor Dead

Dr. Joseph Sonnier with Richelle Shetina

In this report, Michael Dixon, a plastic surgeon from Amarillo, Texas was jilted by Richelle Shetina, a beautiful divorced mother of two. Dixon hired Dave Shepard, a friend to kill Joseph Sonnier, his rival also a doctor who lived in Lubbock, Texas. Sonnier's first wife divorced him after 27 years. She was murdered by her second husband, who then  killed himself. Sonnier had three sons. Dixon had one. The first trial ended without a verdict. 



http://abc.go.com/shows/2020/listing/2016-01/08-010816-a-last-dance-in-texas

20/20
January 2016
01/08/16: 'A Last Dance in Texas'
40:40 01/08/16 NR
Texas Doctor Found Stabbed and Shot to Death in Own Home; Police Interview Ex of Murdered Texas Doctor's Girlfriend; Man Goes on Trial for Having Rival Doctor Killed in Love Triangle

https://youtu.be/8TSApOQ4ILg

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Like Joseph Sonnier, Richelle Shetina was divorced when the two met.

[From timeline]
Richelle Shetina meets Dr. Thomas Dixon after visiting Sensi Med Spa in Amarillo, Texas, forBotox injections. Dixon was the owner of the spa and administered the shots. They become friends on Facebook and developed a friendly relationship.
[. . .]
Shetina and Dixon begin an affair. His wife finds out and quickly files for divorce. The couple begins dating exclusively but Shetina recalls their relationship as rocky. At one point, the defense would argue at trial, that Shetina thought Dixon might propose, but he bought her a tea-of-the-month club subscription instead. After months of highs and lows, Shetina breaks it off with Dixon.
[. . .]
Shetina begins taking dance classes at D’Venue Dance Studio in Lubbock, Texas, in July 2011, where she meets a tall, handsome pathologist named Dr. Joseph Sonnier. Their friendship quickly turns into a romance that Shetina describes as the love of her life.
While Dixon is desperate to get back with Shetina, she lets him know by text message in September 2011 that she is now in love with her dance partner. The defense argued that Shetina was playing a cruel game and leading Dixon on.
[. . .]

a man named Paul Reynolds contacts police and tells them that the man he is staying with, David Shepard, mentions that he killed someone in Lubbock. Reynolds tells police he did an online search and found information about Sonnier’s death, and thought he might have been Shepard’s victim.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/texas-doctors-love-triangle-timeline-events-twisted-murder/story?id=36143233

Texas Doctors Love Triangle: A Timeline of Events in This Twisted Murder-For-Hire Case
By MOLLIE RIEGGER
Jan 7, 2016, 5:32 PM ET

ABC News

ABC's George Stephanopoulos Forgot He Worked For Clinton, and Gave $75,000 to Clinton Foundation In Interview of Author of Clinton Cash

[From article]
for the man ABC News has made its principal face, recusal from the biggest story of the next year and a half would be untenable. How could he continue in his role as anchor?
[. . .]
Having in effect disqualified himself part of the way, Stephanopoulos is going to have a hard time hanging onto his position, no matter how reluctant ABC News is to can its leading newsman.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/05/stephanopoulos_and_abc_news_now_in_a_nowin_situation.html

May 15, 2015
Stephanopoulos and ABC News now in a no-win situation
By Thomas Lifson

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[From article]
ABC news host George Stephanopoulos admitted Thursday he had donated $75,000 to the Clinton Foundation and did not disclose this conflict of interest to viewers before interviewing the author of a book critical of the foundation’s foreign donors and influence over Hillary Clinton at the State Department.
Stephanopoulos, a former Bill Clinton communications aide, interviewed Clinton Cash author Peter Schweizer on the April 26 edition of This Week, where he pushed back against his reporting and Schweizer himself, repeating Democratic attacks that he had a “partisan interest” in disparaging the Clintons.



“They say you used to work for President Bush as a speech writer. You are funded by the Koch brothers,” he said. “How do you respond to that?”
“As you know, the Clinton campaign says you haven’t produced a shred of evidence that there was any official action as secretary that supported the interest of donors,” he asked later. “We’ve done investigative work here at ABC News, found no proof of any kind of direct action. An independent government ethics expert at the Sunlight Foundation Bill Allison wrote this: ‘There’s no smoking gun. No evidence that the changed policy based on donations to the foundation. No smoking gun.’ Is there a smoking gun?”
Stephanopoulos did not point out that the Sunlight Foundation is funded by left-wing billionaire George Soros.

http://freebeacon.com/culture/by-george-abcs-clinton-defender-in-chief/

By George: ABC’s Clinton Defender-in-Chief
Stephanopoulos hammered 'Clinton Cash' author over accusations against foundation to which he donated $75,000
BY: David Rutz Follow @DavidRutz
May 14, 2015 12:44 pm

Mother Of New York City's WABC-TV News Anchor Confronts News Director

[From article]
Another source said Lisa, along with other Channel 7 reporters, was put under a “tremendous amount” of pressure. She would commute into Manhattan daily as early as 2 a.m., complete her last shoot around lunchtime, and then be in the office working more stories in the afternoon. The source said, “Camille is a bully and will target people she doesn’t like, most often women. Lisa’s colleagues applaud Lisa’s mom for standing up to Camille.”



Page Six reported last week that WABC veteran Sarah Wallace is preparing for a legal battle after she was abruptly ousted by Edwards — who has been nicknamed “Camevil” in the newsroom — after 30 years at the station.

http://pagesix.com/2015/04/05/grieving-mother-says-abc-boss-worked-daughter-to-death/?_ga=1.96423647.212440808.1402078759

Grieving mom confronted WABC boss who ‘worked daughter to death’
By Emily Smith
New York Post
April 5, 2015 | 1:27am

New York News Anchor Sues ABC News For Age, Gender Discrimination

[From article]
ABC insiders say the 59-year-old Wallace — who has 13 Emmys, a Peabody and two Edward R. Murrow awards — was pushed out after 30 years by WABC news director Edwards, who staffers believe targeted Wallace because of her age.
One insider said: “There are plenty of male journalists who have been there just as long and who don’t have the awards Sarah Wallace has. But Camille was hostile to Sarah, they butted heads, and Sarah was forced out in late February.”

http://pagesix.com/2015/04/02/ousted-wabc-reporter-gears-up-for-nasty-legal-battle/?_ga=1.54436587.212440808.1402078759

Ousted WABC reporter gears up for nasty legal battle
By Emily Smith
New York Post

Page Six
April 2, 2015 | 9:37pm

ABC News Anchor Exhibits, Ignorance or Intentional Misguided Promotion of Propaganda

[From article]

Last week, Muir began the news with a story about the retraining of New York City police officers under Commissioner Bill Bratton. To fulfill the new policy of not inconveniencing criminals, cops are being taught to subdue violent suspects without harming them, requiring the officers to learn a series of Bolshoi ballet moves.
This would work great if American cops were London bobbies arresting public school louts, but we have a somewhat different urban reality in the U.S. There’s no question but that the “retraining” will get cops killed.
Muir led off his broadcast with a recap of the event that led to the retraining: “Ferguson, Missouri: An unarmed black man, Michael Brown, is shot to death. The officer is not indicted.”
And that was it: “The officer is not indicted.” Nothing about how the “hands up, don’t shoot” hysteria was a bald-faced lie invented by Brown’s ex-con co-conspirator Dorian Johnson. No mention of the police officer being fully exonerated in two separate investigations. No recognition of the fact that Officer Darren Wilson was an exemplar of good police work.

http://humanevents.com/2015/03/25/hey-pretty-boy-do-you-actually-know-whats-in-the-news/?utm_source=coulterdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl

Hey, Pretty Boy: Do You Actually Know What’s In The News?

Ann Coulter

Wednesday Mar 25, 2015 4:52 PM

Networks Cover Robert Durst Saga Of Murders

CBS 48 Hours report on Durst by Erin Moriarity is the best of the three. 

[From report]
"48 Hours" correspondent Erin Moriarty has been reporting on the Robert Durst case for more than 10 years and speaks exclusively with the man who will be defending Durst in court, top criminal defense attorney Dick DeGuerin. "48 Hours has startling new information about the case that exploded into the news this week after Durst's arrest in New Orleans for the December 2000 murder of his friend Susan Berman, following a controversial documentary on HBO.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/48-hours-presents-robert-durst-the-bizarre-saga/

"48 HOURS" PRESENTS: THE BIZARRE SAGA OF ROBERT DURST
2015Mar 21
CORRESPONDENT Erin Moriarty

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PHOTO: AP

State District Judge Susan Criss makes a point while arguing with defense attorney Mike Ramsey during a bond hearing in New York millionaire Robert Durst's bond-jumping case Thursday, Dec. 18 , 2003 Galveston, Texas.[From report]
The Texas judge who presided over Robert Durst’s 2003 trial in the Morris Black murder case believes the alleged confession Durst gives in an audio recording on the HBO series “The Jinx” will be admitted in court.
“I believe that tape will be admissible,” Galveston County Judge Susan Criss told ABC News' “20/20.” “He wasn’t coerced.”

http://abcnews.go.com/US/texas-judge-robert-durst-2003-murder-trial-believes/story?id=29790187

Texas Judge in Robert Durst 2003 Murder Trial Believes 'Jinx' Recording Will Be Admitted in Court
Mar 20, 2015, 7:17 PM ET
By EDWARD LOPEZ, MEGHAN KENEALLY and LAUREN EFFRON
via 20/20

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http://www.nbcnews.com/dateline/dennis-murphy-previews-robert-durst-inside-long-strange-trip-n326731

DATELINE

A look deeply into the baffling murder case of New York real estate heir Robert Durst and the evidence against him. Dateline chronicles the long journey to uncover the truth and speaks with key players involved in the case, including detectives, investigators and close friends of the victim.

Published March 19th 2015, 4:47 pm

Extreme Example of Media Bias, Stirring Up Hatred and Division of Americans

Rush Limbaugh and Howie Carr (Boston talk show host and Boston Herald columnist) explained that the shooter is a liberal, who supports the Southern Poverty Law Center, ultra-extreme-leftist organization, and Rachel Maddow. That would mean (if you believe that journalists can determine motives) that his liberal views inspired him to shoot Muslims. Moreover on ABC evening news February 11, 2015 David Muir stated that the shooter is an atheist. Atheists in America attack Christians. They seldom mention Islam.

[From article]
A 46-year-old man was charged with the fatal shooting of three students at a quiet condominium complex near theUniversity of North Carolina campus, the police said on Wednesday, in what may have been a lethal escalation of a neighborhood parking dispute.
The shooting, which left three Muslim students dead, occurred Tuesday around 5 p.m. and according to two 911 calls that came in just after the incident, five to 10 shots had been fired.
The three victims, one man and two women, were of Arab descent, and photos on Facebook show the two women wearing head scarves, leading to speculation on Twitter and Facebook, much of it with the hashtag#muslimlives matter, that the killings might have been a hate crime.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/12/us/muslim-student-shootings-north-carolina.html

Chapel Hill Shooting Leaves 3 Muslim Students Dead; Neighbor Is Charged
By JONATHAN M. KATZ and RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA
FEB. 11, 2015

ABC's The View Staffer Fired After Filing Lawsuit Against Show

"The View" co-hosts Whoopi Goldberg (L), Nicolle Wallace, Rosie Perez and Rosie O'Donnell

Photo: AP Photo/ABC
[From article]
ABC threw former staffer Bernadette Piccolomini out of “The View” studios Monday morning after she filed a lawsuit against the network.
Piccolomini, 63, a “View” producer who worked for ABC for 32 years, alleged age discrimination when she was let go.

http://pagesix.com/2014/11/03/view-staffer-kicked-out-of-studios-after-lawsuit/?_ga=1.225284057.212440808.1402078759

‘View’ staffer kicked out of studios after lawsuit
By Jennifer Gould Keil
November 3, 2014 | 11:03pm

New York Post

Page Six

Three TV Networks Fear Using Word "Terrorist"

[From article]
The Big Three networks steered clear of labeling the Islamist group ISIS "terrorists" on their evening newscasts on Friday. Instead, ABC's World News and CBS Evening News labeled the genocidal radicals "militants." NBC Nightly News used the more benign "rebels" in their coverage of the group's latest attacks on the Kurdish part of Iraq
[. . .]
On Thursday, the MRC's Dan Gainor pointed out that the Big Three networks have followed a similar pattern with regard to the Islamic extremist group Hamas: "ABC, CBS and NBC journalists referred to Hamas as 'militants,' 'fighters' or 'soldiers' 13 times more often than they called them 'terrorists.' (65 stories to 5 stories.)"

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-balan/2014/08/09/big-three-networks-avoid-calling-isis-terrorists-label-them-rebels-an

Big Three Networks Avoid Calling ISIS 'Terrorists;' Label Them 'Rebels' and 'Militants'
By Matthew Balan

August 9, 2014 | 00:30

Miami Police Didn't Believe Kidnapping Victim; Resulting in Two More Deaths

Marc Schiller

This story was presented on CBS News television show 48 Hours on Saturday April 27, 2013.  ABC News 20/20 broadcast their own investigation previously, about this "grotesque" (word used by prosecutor Gail Levine) series of crimes. 

Marcelo "Marc" Schiller was an emigrant from Argentina living in Miami, Florida. He was a successful  accountant, but became greedy and began a Medicaid fraud business. He fired one of his employees, who joined up with a criminal gang of muscle enthusiasts at a local gym. They decided to kidnap Schiller, steal his money and kill him. They tortured him for about 40 days and tried to kill him. They failed. He survived, but did not go to police fearing prosecution for his fraudulent business. The awful part of this story is that when he did go to the police they did not believe him. [It is a problem I've had for more than 30 years of criminal abuses by crime families and Communists. Louis Zamperini, the subject of Lauren Hillenbrand's book, Unbroken, had the same reaction from his own father. He was tortured daily for 3 years after being captured by the Japanese during World War II, because he was a celebrity. When he got home neither his father nor the VA psychiatrist believed what he had survived.] When Schiller was recovering in the hospital coming out of a coma from his injuries, he told the nurses  that he was kidnapped. They told him, "No. You were in a car accident driving drunk." That was set up by the killers to cover up their crime. He gave up trying to convince the nurses.  


http://www.painandgainbook.com/

Pain and Gain
Marc Schiller
Star of Hope Inc.
2013

http://www.pieceofcakepr.com/new-book-by-real-sun-gym-gang-victim-marc-schiller-exposes-true-story-behind-the-paramount-film-pain-and-gain/


NEW BOOK BY REAL SUN GYM GANG VICTIM, MARC SCHILLER, EXPOSES TRUE STORY BEHIND THE PARAMOUNT FILM ‘PAIN AND GAIN’.
Told as a gripping memoir, Marc Schiller chronicles his month-long captivity that many will soon witness on the big screen in Paramount’s ‘Pain and Gain’ movie. Telling his untold true story for the first time, readers are urged to buckle up for a journey of adrenaline, a struggle to survive and a shocking ending.

ABC News Visits the Lakota Reservation

This show exposes American misguided policies. Taxpayer funds are given to foreign governments. Their leaders often pocket the money and do not help their own people. These days the Obama Harvard-Chicago gang is borrowing money to give it away. Celebrities travel to foreign countries to help people living in poverty. They ignore the thousands of young people abandoned by government and corporations right here on the US mainland. My reaction to this great feature is what took you so long?

http://abc.go.com/watch/2020/SH559026/VD55148316/2020-1014-children-of-the-plains

20/20 10/14: Children of the Plains

40:50 | Aired on ABC 10/14/11

Diane Sawyer reports on the young dreamers of the Pine Ridge Reservation.

ABC News Report Clueless and Biased

ABC's Nightline report on Wednesday September 7, 2011 was given by David Wright.
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http://abcnews.go.com/watch/nightline/SH5584743/VD55142018/nightline-97-ihop-massacre-chilling-911-tapes

He said the man accused of the shootings has a history of mental illness and asked, "How did he get access to weapons." Journalists show no skepticism regarding allegations of mental illness. They never question the accuracy of a diagnosis. In courts one psychiatrist says a person is mentally ill, then another says he is not. How can that be if psychiatry is scientific? Psychiatry is no more than personal opinion masquerading as science. Yet journalists do not question these charlatans. Are his family members psychiatrists too? Why did the sheriff accept their diagnosis? Why did journalists repeat it?

Two aspects of this ABC news report indicate the extreme bias of network journalists. One is they are clueless about the causal connection between psychiatric drugs and violence. If he had a history of mental illness did he take any, or stop taking, psychiatric drugs? The drug-company-controlled FDA requires a warning label that they cause violence and suicidal thoughts. This crime fits the pattern. But no mention from network journalists. The second aspect is that there is no causal connection between an accusation of mental illness and violence. Most people accused of mental illness are harmless. The effort by drug companies to criminalize mental illness is assisted by the useful idiots in the mainstream media.

[From article]
Carson City Sheriff Kenny Furlong said "There has been some suggestion by his family members that there is some mental health issues that we are going to have to look into."

http://abcnews.go.com/US/ihop-shooting-nevada-leaves-dead/story?id=14457713

National Guard Members Among Four Dead in Carson City Nevada IHOP Shooting Rampage
By JESSICA HOPPER (@jesshop23) and DEAN SCHABNER
Sept. 6, 2011
ABC News

NY TV Gal, False Rape Claim

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/rape_weather_gal_negotiating_with_yFSBLc76hlttQhd9s2gxpJ

'Cry rape' weather gal Heidi Jones negotiating deal with prosecutors
By LAURA ITALIANO
New York Post
Last Updated: 1:06 PM, March 16, 2011
Posted: 11:01 AM, March 16, 2011

ABC News Biased Environmental Reporting

http://bigjournalism.com/abreitbart/2011/01/31/media-bias-rears-its-head-on-the-slopes/

Exclusive: ABCNews Star Reporter Busted for Eco-Activist Journalism; Network Investigating Discipline
Posted by Andrew Breitbart
Jan 31st 2011 at 8:00 am

ABC Provoking News

http://bigpeace.com/alafferty/2010/08/24/speaker-at-gzm-rally-witnesses-provocative-behavior-from-abc-news-staffer/

Speaker at GZM Rally Witnesses Provocative Behavior from ABC News Staffer
Posted by Andrea S. Lafferty
BigPeace.com
Aug 24th 2010 at 1:18 pm

ABC Bashes Palin Not Obama Over Oil Spill

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2010/05/23/abc-absolves-obama-oil-spill-blame-bashing-sarah-palin

ABC News Absolves Obama of Oil Spill Blame by Bashing Sarah Palin

By Noel Sheppard
Newsbusters.org
Sun, May 23, 2010 - 21:39 ET

Fox News Tops in Cable, Beats ABC

"The Democratic defeat was a huge setback for President Obama and the fortunes of his controversial health-care reform effort in Congress.
Interest in the [election in Massachusetts that saw Republican Scott Brown take the Senate seat held by the late Sen. Ted Kennedy] ran so high that Fox News drew nearly 7 million viewers at 9 p.m., when the polls closed."

http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/tv/fox_news_top_in_cable_tv_Ogca48Cgy4ePuoMKlG8OOJ

Fox News top in cable TV

Mass. election bumped ratings

By MICHAEL SHAIN

New York Post

Last Updated: 9:59 AM, January 29, 2010

Posted: 2:54 AM, January 27, 2010

How to Buy a Child in 10 Hours

How to Buy a Child in 10 Hours

This was posted on the Comments pages on ABC News under the story on Nightline from July 8, 2008 on "How to Buy a Child in 10 Hours."

"NewEnglandLisa" recognizes the pervasive pattern of diverting attention to problems in other countries at the expense of vulnerable Americans. Politicians do that because there are no repercussions for supporting exploited persons elsewhere. "maryladyamas" says, ". . . only mentioning Haiti when this is obviously a worldwide phenomena," ignores the comment by Martin Bashir that there is more slavery in the world today than at any other time in history. If that is true why are white Americans alive today being vilified for slavery in the US 100 years ago? Why aren't the compassionate concerned African American leaders outraged over today's slavery all over the world? This shows their hypocrisy and how irrational their arguments are.

ABC NEWS Nightline July 8, 2008 “How to Buy a Child in 10 Hours.”

http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/story?id=5326508&page=1