Originally Posted by wilsel
Yeah but this ban will prevent it ever going to court period.
That's not entirely true.
Twenty years from now, what a judge feels is "profoundly obvious" could change.
Something that comes immediately to mind is the different concepts of spousal abuse and "date rape" that exist in 2004, compared to the dismissal of charges and dismissal of suits that you'd see in the 1980's. In some states, it's the same laws that are being used for the arrest, but the judges and juries view it differently than they did 20 years ago.