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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 [...] Share This month in 2007, then Attorney General Andrew Cuomo was tasked with breathing working life into New York’s Civil Management statute. With it, New York joined 20 other states in taking one of the most controversial and delicate legal steps possible in a liberal democracy- that of extending incarceration or strict probation for individuals with [...] Share Earlier this month, an e-mail surfaced, purportedly from a Kappa Sigma fraternity member to his brothers at the University of Southern California. Before I discuss it, I want to be clear: Anyone, male or female, who is angered and disgusted by this garbage has every right to be. As Margaret Hartmann noted in Jezebel, it [...] |
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