From: INVALID_SEE_SIG@example.com.invalid   
      
   In the previous article, Adam H. Kerman  wrote:   
   > >    Then, 40 years after Carter's pardon, another woman stepped   
   > >    forward with an accusation of her own. In a lawsuit filed in New   
   > >    York on Feb. 24, 2021, she alleged that Yarrow lured her to a   
   > >    Manhattan hotel when she was a minor in 1969 and raped her.   
   >   
   > >    [...]   
   >   
   > >Seems timely for some reason.   
   >   
   > That the statute of limitations law was changed to allow the other   
   > accuser to file a lawsuit more than 5 decades after the alleged   
   > crime took place is not in the interest of justice. There are valid   
   > reasons for statutes of limitations given the extraordinary   
   > difficulty of defending against the tort so long after the fact.   
      
   I 100% agree.  NY state did this recently to enable a bullshit lawsuit   
   against Donald Trump for purely political reasons.  This is not a   
   healthy thing for law, politics or society generally.  Statutes of   
   limitations, as you say, exist for good reason.   
      
   I included the graf about the then-new accusation just to underscore   
   what a scumbag Yarrow was.  I don't know that I'd go into a courtroom   
   with that accusation, but given the proclivities of people who   
   sexually prey children (as Yarrow unambiguously and unquestionably   
   did), I find it to be a perfectly credible basis for a personal   
   conclusion about a) Yarrow's character and b) the propriety of   
   granting a pardon for such a crime based on the political support of   
   the perpetrator.   
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