The extraordinary trial captivating America … Who is the victim in the Anna Stubblefield Case? … the activist professor who sacrificed her family, career and eventually her freedom. Tell Them You Love Me, newspaper headlines & article, Sky Documentaries 2024
I don’t mind people knowing because I’m not guilty of the crime. ibid. Anna
I’m in love with the man [DMAN, disabled with facilitated communication] … He typed, I know. I love you too … He said, So now what? ibid.
I stumbled on the Frontline documentary on FC. ibid. DMan’s brother
Facilitators were doing this thinking that they were giving people the ability to communicate. ibid. critic of FC
I have seen facilitated communication absolutely work. ibid. disabled academic
The crimes being investigated are crimes of a sexual assault nature. ibid. rozzer
Dear Professor Stubblefield, I am hereby notifying you that the University has reason to believe that you may have committed a very serious criminal offense, constituting an act or acts of moral turpitude … ibid. letter
You don’t believe me, either of you. Play for Today: No Defence, accused Mr Germanou to brief Pelham & Helen, BBC 1980
He [judge] did not believe I came back from Cyprus to prove my innocence. ibid.
Your confession to police is going to be particularly difficult to discredit. ibid. brief Pelham to Germanou
Damn your pressure groups that think every rape is the same. ibid. brief Pelham to Helen
The John C Depp II v Amber Laura Heard trial took place over six weeks beginning in April 2002. Depp v Heard testified two weeks apart. Depp v Heard I: Truth on Trial, captions, Netflix 2023
She wrote an 2018 op-ed in The Washington Post referring to herself as a public figure representing domestic abuse. ibid. reporter/pod comments
Depp was the one who wanted cameras in the courtroom; she didn’t. ibid.
She’s acting; she’s lying. ibid.
He wasn’t hitting her but he was doing some very aggressive stuff. ibid.
Remember, we were not there. ibid.
He realized the depths of how fucking insane she was. ibid.
She’s on tape admitting to hitting Johnny Depp. ibid.
Millions watched, commented and shared. Depp v Heard II: Breaking the Internet
My finger had been severed. The remains of my finger. ibid. Depp
Amber Heard then testified in court that Johnny Depp sexually assaulted her with a glass bottle. ibid. caption
Social media is clearly playing a role in this case. ibid. reporter/pod comments
It’s not about truth … It’s about what the judge or jury believes. ibid.
I must be a monster … Can you guys frigging believe this [photo] is put into evidence? He’s taking a frigging nap. ibid.
Their duelling defamation trial playing out in Virginia. ibid. Court TV
Amber Heard’s cross-examination led to another wave of online ridicule. ibid. caption
She doesn’t know the different between donate and pledge. ibid. pod comment
I don’t know what to make of it … I don’t know who to believe. I don’t know how much of it is true. They’re two actors. Depp v Heard III: The Viral Verdict, Piers Morgan
I am harassed. Humiliated. Threatened. Every single day. ibid. Heard
Brutal, cruel, and all false. ibid. Depp
Borderline personality disorder and histrionic personality disorder. ibid. Depp’s shrink evaluates Heard
Those [Depp] texts were not presented to the jury. Judge Azcarate did not allow them to be admitted to the court. ibid. caption
Amber Heard’s legal team shifted their questioning to addressing Johnny Depp’s character. ibid.
As the verdict approached, the tension on social media escalated. ibid.
It was a crime that divided a community and shocked a nation … Now we go inside a courtroom. A family GP charged with murdering his patients. The Trial of Harold Shipman, Channel 5 2024
The trial of Dr Shipman changed all that. Just a year after his arrest, Shipman is on trial for murdering 15 of his patients. ibid.
No-one had ever been charged with this number of murders. Some think it’s too many cases for one trial. Yet Shipman pleads Not Guilty to every charge. ibid.
Dr Shipman’s manner with the bereaved families also raises suspicion. ibid.
One of Shipman’s alleged victims died in his surgery. ibid.
Many patient records were altered after the women died. ibid.
‘They exhumed nine bodies and all of those bodies had morphine in them.’ ibid. man
The science does not support Dr Shipman’s claims of drug abuse. ibid.
For centuries witch-hunts raged through Europe and the Americas. Causing the deaths of tens of thousands of innocent people. To this day, the most infamous hunt of all ravaged a small religious community in colonial Massachusetts. The horrors begin when children in a minister’s house have violent fits, an affliction that seems to be caused by the devil. Witches: Truth Behind the Trials, National Geographic 2024
March, 1692: The accused are dragged in front of magistrates. A confession is needed before they are sent to trial. ibid.
‘All these factors are feeding into the division in Salem and perpetuating this mood of suspicion, potentially of hostility, to one’s neighbours.’ ibid. comment
As the court assembles in Salem Town, the accused witches are lead from jail desperately hoping they will find mercy. ibid.
‘The bodies aren’t even buried properly; they’re thrown into a nearby crevice in a rock.’ ibid. comment
‘19 were hanged; others died in prison.’ ibid.
The witch-hunt spread across New England. ibid.
Governor Phipps dismantles the courts responsible for the brutal witch trials. ibid.
Halloween, 1590 Scotland: In a matter of months these suspected witches will have to fight for their lives in Scotland’s first-ever witch trial presided over by the King himself. Witches: Truth Behind the Trials II: Scotland: The King & the Witches
To stop the agony, they confess to attending the Witches’ Sabbath … [and] used diabolical magic to harm the King of Scotland, James VI. ibid.
Denmark: ‘A process of passing the buck until we get down to the people who are least able to defend themselves.’ ibid. comment
‘Now we have this great Satanic conspiracy that James sees as a really genuine threat to himself and to the whole nation.’ ibid.
July 17th 1645, Chelmsford, Essex: There are 50 counts of witchcraft that are going to be heard. Witches: Truth Behind the Trials III: England: The Witchfinder’s Cruel Crusade, comment
Elizabeth says that not only is she a witch but some of her neighbours are witches are well. ibid.
14 women are taken up the gallows, led up the ladder and choked before this great jeering excited crowd. ibid.
Hopkins and Stearne travel father into Essex with plans to hunt evil witches they believe are terrorising the country. ibid.
We have reports that there are many as 150 witches are in the jail, and witnesses coming forward with all these bizarre stories. ibid.
Random and monumentally silly efforts to provde actual forensic evidence for the witch trials. ibid.