I really don't know what to make of the Salmond case. His acquital on all charges is a matter of public records and one has to respect the outcome of the legal process. It's why I bring it up. Nothing about it makes sense. Multiple complainers about a well-resourced and influential person carrying through with their complaint indicates that there might have been something about it. But the proscecution failed (which is obviously not unusual for sexual assault cases). It's one of the few cases of this nature where I actually could just about believe that there was politically motivated conspiracy. Not perhaps that the entire accusations were made up out of whole cloth but that there was some coordinated pressure to push on with what turned out to be a weak case. But if it were a conspiracy then it wasn't a very good one because it failed.

But where I think I come back to is jury nullifiction, that the jury just wasn't up for convicting Alex Salmond not matter what he might or might not have done.