Oh boy this takes me to a bad place........ I was a very young idealistic defence lawyer (in UK we don't have public defenders, but individual lawyers may specialise in criminal work and the state pays some fees) working for a law firm that dealt with a lot of sex offences because our local police station had a special team. Off I went t…
Oh boy this takes me to a bad place........ I was a very young idealistic defence lawyer (in UK we don't have public defenders, but individual lawyers may specialise in criminal work and the state pays some fees) working for a law firm that dealt with a lot of sex offences because our local police station had a special team. Off I went to meet my client, accused of breaking into nurses' accommodation and raping a nurse. First run through, the defence is "I wasn't there". Fingerprints said otherwise. Second run through "I had visited before". Nurses said no way. Third run through (and just before trial) "Yes I was there, yes I climbed in through a window, but she was a willing sexual partner". At this point I contemplated retiring at 23.
Oh boy this takes me to a bad place........ I was a very young idealistic defence lawyer (in UK we don't have public defenders, but individual lawyers may specialise in criminal work and the state pays some fees) working for a law firm that dealt with a lot of sex offences because our local police station had a special team. Off I went to meet my client, accused of breaking into nurses' accommodation and raping a nurse. First run through, the defence is "I wasn't there". Fingerprints said otherwise. Second run through "I had visited before". Nurses said no way. Third run through (and just before trial) "Yes I was there, yes I climbed in through a window, but she was a willing sexual partner". At this point I contemplated retiring at 23.
I've had many many examples of this "Yes I lied to you X times before, but here's the truth finally"