One of the most highly publicized rape trials in recent U.S. history involved the six men accused in what became known as the Big Dan's case. On a March night in 1983, a young woman was raped in Big Dan's Tavern by two men, with the assistance of other bar patrons. The story made national headlines immediately, purportedly, as news stories claimed, because the rape had been unusually brutal and the behavior of the bar patrons unusually callous. Onlookers in the bar were said to have cheered the event as if it were a ball game (Starr, 1984). Although ...