After like 80 years you probably think you’re safe.

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      5 days ago

      yes we can make an assumption that that is indeed what they think, but that’s not actually what they said with the sentence “This wouldn’t hold up in modern court let alone Victorian age court”. So perhaps they accidentally used incorrect phrasing, but even so, the logic doesn’t follow - if something doesn’t hold up in modern-day court, that tells us nothing about whether or not it would hold up in Victorian times, when standards of evidence were indeed lower.