Second Turkey Trot 10 k today , really feeling under the weather so hopefully this doesn ' t go too poorly . Have a happy Thanksgiving and stay safe people ! <| sep |> It ' s not whether or not they lied about the events . They lied about communicating with each other , about their comments to the media and police , and were shown to have deliberately altered their statements in collusion for the express purpose of nailing Gomeshi oh , and they lied about THAT too , when questioned . Basically they made for shitty , unreliable witnesses . Given that there was practically no other evidence , that makes the evidence shitty and unreliable . And purgry is a criminal offence . Lets not forget that . The courts aren ' t in the habit of relying on the word of people who knowingly and deliberately lie under oath or affirmation . This case wasn ' t about whether or not the events happened . It was about how reliable the testimony from the witnesses was . And it was laughable . I ' ve heard more than one lawyer suggest that if this case wasn ' t against a celebrity it wouldn ' t have even gone to trial because of how shitty the witnesses were .