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Share She waited three months to report. She has a boyfriend who was angered by the situation. Sex-themed text messages may have been exchanged before the night in question, and ones suggesting another meeting may have been sent after. She has a Facebook page upon which she posted “nothing out of the ordinary” during the month where the alleged [...] Share “There is no vulnerability without danger.” Veronique Nicole Valliere, Psy.D. It’s a simple and brilliant truth, introduced to me at a sex assault prosecution training in 2009. The doc was discussing how we blame women (and men) who are sexually assaulted, particularly when their choices leading up to the attack make them, in most minds, “more [...] Share Elizabeth “Lizzy” Seeberg passed to the next life on September 10, 2010, a little more than a year ago. I did not know her. Readers of this space, however, know that I was profoundly touched by her life, her death, her courage, and finally the courage of her parents as 9/10/10, for them, bled brutally [...] Share Last week, a high-powered Florida trial attorney named Roy Black penned a piece in Salon.com in which he argued for “modest reforms” in how sexual assault cases are charged and tried. Black successfully defended William Kennedy Smith in 1991, when he was a little younger than I am now. He has defended Rush Limbaugh, trans-national [...] Share A terrific character actor named Daniel Benzali once scored a role on NYPD Blue (it led to an OJ-inspired 90’s TV series) where he played a marquis defense attorney with a shady reputation. When dispatched to help a cop charged with murder, the client initially rejects him, stating that she wants no part of an [...] |
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