You hear a lot about blame-the-victim strategies in rape trials, but this seems to take the cake. (It’s a case where three teen boys — one of them the son of an assistant sheriff — are charged with gang-raping an unconscious girl and videotaping the act.)
In just his opening statement, a pacing, finger-pointing [defense attorney Joseph] Cavallo told the jury that the girl
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Well which is it? Trimmed or shaved? Sounds like he should have worked on his opening more…
They’re going to have a hard time defending this . . .a girl GHBd on video is pretty damning evidence!
Jesus Christ . . . . .people like this make me favor vigilantism.
The video shows the boys dropping her on her face with no reaction? How much more unconscious could she be? Defense attorney Barnett must have taken a few hits of something himself to try the argument that “wanna-be porn stars” make their debuts looking like a corpse. What an asshole.
I think I’m going to be sick from reading that.