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Bay Boy

(1,689 posts)
Fri May 24, 2013, 08:47 AM May 2013

Disgusting lawyer comment about his rapist defendant...

(sorry I could not find a link)

...the rapist's victims were 6 & 9 years old at the time he first raped them.
The attorney said his client only pleaded 'no contest' because he did not want to put the children through the ordeal of a trial.

"That's the kind of person Mr Taylor is" his attorney said.
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Makes me want to puke

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Disgusting lawyer comment about his rapist defendant... (Original Post) Bay Boy May 2013 OP
Lawyers are required not just to go to the mat for their clients, but to break open the window... Recursion May 2013 #1
The judge's response: Bay Boy May 2013 #4
Link... pkdu May 2013 #2
Thank you! Bay Boy May 2013 #3
This Would Be Worse ChoppinBroccoli May 2013 #5

Recursion

(56,582 posts)
1. Lawyers are required not just to go to the mat for their clients, but to break open the window...
Fri May 24, 2013, 08:49 AM
May 2013

... throw the mat out of it, and go to the ground.

And thank God for that.

And I hope this doesn't work.

Bay Boy

(1,689 posts)
4. The judge's response:
Fri May 24, 2013, 09:08 AM
May 2013

“You cannot do more harm to a child than to rob them of their ability to trust,” the judge went on. “You violated that trust to sexually abuse and exploit them. That will have ramifications in regards to their self-esteem, (and) their ability to enter into healthy relationships themselves."

Bay Boy

(1,689 posts)
3. Thank you!
Fri May 24, 2013, 09:06 AM
May 2013

I looked but did not find it. I was quoting from the actual newspaper article.
(newspaper for those who don't remember is something that is printed on 'paper' and 'delivered' to homes, people pick it up and hold it to read the 'words' off if it)

ChoppinBroccoli

(3,781 posts)
5. This Would Be Worse
Fri May 24, 2013, 10:37 AM
May 2013

"Your Honor, in my client's defense, he'd like the Court to know that even though one of the victims was 6 years old, she actually had the body of an 8 year old."

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