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Ontario Court Judge Melvyn Green was kind enough to say the magic words: “The presumption of innocence is effectively restored to you.”

But the words have no weight or power outside a courtroom. They are without magic.

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The next time a prospective employer Googles Mustafa Ururyar’s name, what comes up is unlikely to be any more to his benefit than it was in October, when the company in the educational sector where he was working appears to have done the same thing and then fired him.

As evidence of this, and the increasing meaninglessness of a court decision, the day before the case was resolved, the alleged victim, Mandi Gray, was still talking about her “rape”.

By her tweets, she knew on Monday the charge against Ururyar would be dropped and settled with a common law peace bond.

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But on Tuesday Gray was published in the Dec. 12 issue of NOW Magazine saying, “But when I was raped in 2015…” and the same day tweeted, “Punishing the dude (Ururyar) will not solve misogyny or rape. It will not un-rape me.”