Don't go naked in your own home--you might get arrested.

[Barrister]

if we assume the opposite, it's 5:30 in the afternoon and he is making coffee fully clothed in her front yard.

look, that's an absurd axiom. if you have a communication issue with reporters, that's a public relations issue which as a public employee, you have a responsibility to address.

Not that you assume the opposite facts, but the opposite of the axoim I suggested.  In other words, you should assume that something in the story is inaccurately being told.

Hey - as a public employee I have spent a fair bit of time talking to the media.  I remember spending some time with a young reporter with the Whitehorse Star just filling her in on some basic information on a file I had nothing to do with, just so she had the basic law correct.

But due to privacy concerns, and not wanting to try cases in the media, the prosecution can typically not reveal much evidence in advance of the trial itself.  So most reporters are only left with information told to them by defense, or by so-called "experts" who know very little.  Which means every news story about a criminal case is not telling the entire story.

[Caliga]

Today is Languish Free Advice Day. 

[Martinus]

America.

Will you get over your sex-phobia in this century or will it carry over into the next?

[Martinus]

Anyway, while I am normally not in favour of the "no snitching" campaign, that bitch who reported the guy to the police should have her brains blown out after being raped with a splintery broomstick.

[Martinus]

Either way, the bitch and her dumb brat were on the guy's private property, right? Pity he didn't shoot them down.

[Josquius]

Fucked up.
It should be legal to be nude in the garden let alone in the house.

[grumbler]

Not that you assume the opposite facts, but the opposite of the axoim I suggested.  In other words, you should assume that something in the story is inaccurately being told.

Hey - as a public employee I have spent a fair bit of time talking to the media.  I remember spending some time with a young reporter with the Whitehorse Star just filling her in on some basic information on a file I had nothing to do with, just so she had the basic law correct.

But due to privacy concerns, and not wanting to try cases in the media, the prosecution can typically not reveal much evidence in advance of the trial itself.  So most reporters are only left with information told to them by defense, or by so-called "experts" who know very little.  Which means every news story about a criminal case is not telling the entire story.

All this is very true, and should be extended; all accounts about anything are lacking "the entire story."  One must look carefully to see what facts might be left out by the recounter of a story as "unimportant," since no one can recount all possible facts pertinent to any story.  Legal cases are just a worse example of this phenomenon, for the reasons you note.

[Delirium]

But is that a practical way to go about your life?

[grumbler]

But is that a practical way to go about your life?

Making coffee in the nude?  Better that than frying bacon in the nude.

[Delirium]

Well argued, sir.

[CountDeMoney]

This is indeed incredibly dumb, assuming the facts are accurate. Why are prosecutors wasting their time on this shit?

Never, ever assume that all the facts about a crime story are accurately reported.  Indeed, I would suggest you assume the opposite.

Yes, what they fail to mention is the mitigating circumstance of his morning wood.  THAT'S INTENT RIGHT THERE BUDDY

[DontSayBanana]

Story does leave some inconsistencies for me, but mostly pointing to how the woman and kid were where they shouldn't be...

If the guy's making coffee in the kitchen, he'd be covered up by the counter, unless he's freakishly tall.

Most houses' "ground" floor is slightly elevated, so in addition, they would have to be looking up at a window in order to catch a view.

The only exception I can think of is a plate glass door in the kitchen, which would most likely mean the "victims" weren't in the front yard at all...

[Viking]

This is just unfair. I bought my flat to be able to lay out a game of WiF and walking around naked alone at home when I feel like it.

[PDH]

I walk around my house naked under my clothes all the time - am going to be in trouble?

[Viking]

I walk around my house naked under my clothes all the time - am going to be in trouble?

Don't think so, but if a crazy woman with her kid breaks into your home and pulls your pants down you might be done for indecent exposure.