Someone has replied to this comment and then blocked me before I could respond - that's a pet hate of mine - but I will respond as best I can to what I remember she said.

Yes there are some insights you may have from being treated badly by another person. If you've been a victim of someone abusive then you may indeed be very good at spotting such a pattern in others. However, receiving such treatment means you're also pre-disposed to making errors in confirmation bias due to hypervilligance. This confirmation bias is discounted against by the legal system, but is also ripe for narcissistic supply by someone sufficiently capable of eliciting it.

That doesn't mean anyone is evil. It doesn't mean anyone needs to vilified in the public sphere, it means complicated people do complicated things -in many cases the intuitive answer is correct, I don't believe in this case it is. I believe that because I've watched most of the case.

Holding a rational 'look at the evidence, your judgment might be off due to prior experience and your own trauma' is not about discounting someone's experience and saying 'it doesn't matter'. It does matter. I'm concerned about being blocked for holding a rationalist position - but that's out of my control.

What matters most is ensuring a fair hearing for both parties - that hasn't happened yet. In this instance, as I said before, I think the OP's best plan is to watch the court case (in an emotionally safe way) and to consider how a particular narrative was shaped and created - it may be enlightening.