She said herself, often and in different interviews and articles she wrote, that she was deeply sorry and that her trauma was such that she couldn't remember details of her assault. No one can give the man his life back, absolutely no one, but to blame her and only her for his wrongful conviction is too easy a way out. There's a society where women often get raped, not believed, and are forced to re-live their trauma during the investigation. There's a whole system in place that routinely put black men in jail on scant evidence. There's another system that makes it very hard to overturn a wrongful conviction.

It's awful that the man went through that. But it's also awful that the woman went through that. It's not right, I think, to put the blame squarely on her shoulders.

I may change my mind when I get older, but for now, this is how I view it.