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The thing about Leuke's situation is, I think many of us can see how we could get caught in the same situation.
Me, I had a girlfriend, and in the early days of dating - I think date number 3 -  we went out for drinks at a bar near her apartment.  Everything was fine until the 3rd cocktail, then BAM, she was suddenly sloppy drunk.  I didn't know at the time that she couldn't metabolize alcohol well, so this came as a surprise.  She literally went from being smiling and chatty to barely coherent and falling off her chair in the span of a minute.
She started being overtly amorous and I was getting embarrassed, so I hastily paid the bill and helped her outside.  People outside were asking her if she was OK as I helped her along the sidewalk, and I can see why - if you saw our scene, with her a bit belligerent and barely able to walk, me half-carrying her, you might think I slipped her a roofie or something.
I got her back to her apartment where she managed to strip to her underwear and promptly passed out on her bed.  I crashed on her couch after sitting around for a while, it wasn't that late but I didn't want to just leave her there.  In the morning, she couldn't remember anything after the 2nd drink.
As sloppy-affectionate as she was in the bar, it's easy to see how she *could have* been the same at her place.  And, if she couldn't remember walking home, it's likely she couldn't have remembered any sexual activities that happened, even if she had initiated them herself.
I know I'm not the only guy that has had something like this happen to them, and what we know of Leuke's story is eerily similar.  This is why so many of us have at least a bit of skepticism w/r/t Leuke's guilt.  And why you say, 'we don't know', which is true.  Baker is going exclusively by the court documents and results.  Which is all he can do, really.  But if say, in my circumstance above, the woman had in fact initiated something, couldn't remember the next day, but felt violated and remorseful, all the evidence would be against me.
This is why Baker's feeling the heat from some areas, this blog included.  He's not allowing for any gray area in what may have happened.  And he's skewering Mariners brass over not blatent lies, but shades of the truth that in another series of posts you characterize as protecting relationships.  It *feels* like the reporting style, the expose-like stories, have a melodrama that's not exactly proportionate to the actual magnitude of Leuke's crime or Zduriencik's forthrightness.