But the probability of a sexual assault claim being knowingly false is extremely low to begin with . Well that ' s irrelevant , since the Ghomeshi case was not even a sexual assault case . It is indeed extremely common , which is why attorneys on both sides so exhaustively prepare witnesses for their testimony . Not being a criminologist I don ' t have statistical data easily at hand to substantiate that fact . Ok , so you have no evidence for that . You can ' t even give a number e . g . in 10 % of similar cases , complainants lie in similar ways as the Ghomeshi complainantsThat depends what you mean by many . Too many to be justified in convicting someone criminally on that basis ? Definitely . A majority or anywhere close ? Definitely not . And again , you have no way of knowing that . How many assault cases exists where it was proven that had more than three complainants , and all of them were proven to have lied under oath ? Probably not too many . Of those , how many were actually altogether false ? There is no way to know for sure , but it is quite plausible that most actually were . You think that it ' s less than the majority , but you have no way of knowing that .