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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 Review the closing arguments of the sex assault cases I prosecuted over the years and here’s the most oft-used quote you’ll find: “We don’t get our victims from Central Casting. We get them from life. Gritty, unrehearsed, unvarnished life.” I stole this theme from the senior ACA’s in Alexandria, Virginia who trained me. Smart prosecutors have [...] ShareMr. Michael Grace, Esq, Attorney at Law Grace, Tisdale and Clifton, PA Winston-Salem, North Carolina Dear Mr. Grace: ‘Hurt,’ the word itself, is ancient, and typical of the blunt, mono-syllabic terms we get from the rough German parentage of English. ‘Grace,’ as you may know, from the Latin “gratia,” is a beautiful word (hence it’s choice as [...] Share A few months ago, I posted on the Start By Believing Campaign being led by an organization I serve (EVAW, Int’l). In response, a less-than-impressed commenter asked me rhetorically “When do you stop believing, Roger?” While I actually answered that in the post itself, a further comment of his illuminated the disconnect between us: “Does the [...] |
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