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  • Sensitivezombie@lemmy.zip
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    1 year ago

    "Defence barrister Erasmus Lovell-Jones said his client had an underlying psychological fragility which made it difficult for her to say no in social situations.

    He said Karezi – who was studying a bachelor’s degree in health science – met a person who believed she was studying medicine, and when she did not correct them it spawned a misunderstanding that opened doors for her."

    What kind of horse shit defense is that? Someone should check if this defense attorney has underlying phycological fragility themself.

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      1 year ago

      His job is to defend her to the best of his ability. If there is no good defense for what she did then he is obligated to make a bad one as long as that defense doesn’t involve direct lies.

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      1 year ago

      I have a psychological fragility that makes it hard for me to not steal spirits from the liquor store and I demand justice.

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      underlying psychological fragility

      Jesus Christ.

      It’s things like this which gives ammo to conservatives to call the next generation weak.

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        In their defence, this is their only legal defence so they’re basically trying to worm their way out getting in trouble for being a liar so I’m not too sure they’re concerned about using made up and exaggerated statements for things that are subjective. It’s also a lawyer saying this, I’d argue that lawyers lean conservative but have no idea really. Also, from what I’ve seen when a liberal does this they’re weak and when a conservative does this it’s smart or playing the system, it’s always been a bad faith argument anyway