wejo wrote:
CSC is not the prosecution. They are more like a group promoting justice. The concept of clean sport doesn't mean convictions. It means dopers out of the sport. They are different things.But even if CSC was the prosecution were they should be behind the defendant's ability to defend themselves. The prosecutions goal should be the truth, not a conviction. We must not forget that. Often the truth results in a conviction but conviction should not be the goal.
Make up your mind. Are you arguing that Shelby deserves the right to any defense, even after being convicted - which is the essence of an adversarial justice system - while also arguing that those on the other side do not hve the right to participate in the adversarial system?
You're coming at this from a position where everybody has some inherent responsibility to assist Shelby in prolonging her investigation. That investigation is over. She got caught. If she wants to keep proclaiming her innocence, fine. Let her. But arguing that organizations who exist purely to promote the interests of clean athletes omehow have a responsibility to help her get her case further investigated when it's already over, is like saying a victims' rights organization has a responsibility to help a murderer's appeal process.
This is your bias, and it's not subtle. you believe everyone here has a responsibility to look at this from Shelby's POV. CSC is looking at it from the POV of actual clean athletes who don't get busted and blame it on burritos, and the people who like watching a sport that isn't overrun by cheaters with an excuse.
The prosecution in this case is over. She lost. CSC doesn't promote justice; it promotes clean athletes. She isn't one. She doesn't deserve any ore support or defense than she can muster on her own.