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    Default Prostitutes cannot be raped according to WV defense attorney!! WTF?!?

    http://www.dailymail.com/News/Kanawha/200908240912

    This made me sick to my stomach! According to this guys defense attorney, sex workers cannot be raped! He spews a long-winded diatribe full of hate and evilness!

    Jeezus what a fucked up argument! How in the world can someone think that because these women are prostitutes who live very difficult lives and are largely uneducated it takes away their basic human rights?!?!

    Luckily, the guy was found guilty! Apparently the jury had some empathy for those less fortunate than themselves. I wish there was someway that attorneys like this who argue that the LAW should be ignored because of prejudices could be disbarred.
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    While I agree with you that this is an outrageous position, I have to admit that I've stopped trying to rationalize what lawyers say when they are arguing on behalf of their client as it is their duty to argue zealously without prejudice. I pretty much don't take any statements they make with more than a grain of salt. It's their job to argue on behalf of their client to the best of their ability. In the future, if this lawyer should ever be hired by a sex industry worker who claimed to be raped, you'd be surprised at the 180 he would likely make.
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    The argument is of course ridiculous.

    So a lawyer who chooses to practice the law cannot be exploited/harmed if a paying client gets a thrill by holding a weapon to his head while working, or better still... forces him to practice law at gunpoint because he chooses to practice law anyway. It is not violence it is what?

    So really yea, a truly WTF argument... but that said Vera has a point. There is a certain something to be said for a system that allows defense lawyers great leniency in attempting to defend their clients. I guess the premise being, it is better for a guilt man to go free then for an innocent one to go to jail. But seriously since the argument is so clearly broken in regards to any other line of work, the only reason it would be entertained at all is because sex is involved, and where sex is involved, people's brains stop working.
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    I am not orginally from WV but live here now. I say WTF to a lot of things around here.
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    Quote Originally Posted by verfolgung View Post
    While I agree with you that this is an outrageous position, I have to admit that I've stopped trying to rationalize what lawyers say when they are arguing on behalf of their client as it is their duty to argue zealously without prejudice. I pretty much don't take any statements they make with more than a grain of salt. It's their job to argue on behalf of their client to the best of their ability. In the future, if this lawyer should ever be hired by a sex industry worker who claimed to be raped, you'd be surprised at the 180 he would likely make.
    Which is precisely why I will never be a defense attny. EVER.
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    the first thing we do let's kill all the lawyers-Henry VI, William Shakespeare

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    Quote Originally Posted by fast tan77 View Post
    I am not orginally from WV but live here now. I say WTF to a lot of things around here.
    I'm originally from WV, southern WV, where it is MUCH worse than Morgantown and the northern areas, and I still say WTF at many, many things!
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    Quote Originally Posted by JayATee View Post
    Which is precisely why I will never be a defense attny. EVER.
    Fuck no, if I ever need one I am getting the lieingest, amoral, bastard my money can buy. As a matter of fact I am probably behind not having one on retainer!

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    Quote Originally Posted by xdamage View Post
    So a lawyer who chooses to practice the law cannot be exploited/harmed if a paying client gets a thrill by holding a weapon to his head while working, or better still... forces him to practice law at gunpoint because he chooses to practice law anyway. It is not violence it is what?
    It's pretty much how I was going to respond: She has the right to refuse service for any reason at any time. If she hadn't feared for her life when the blade appeared, she would have refused sexual service.

    It's their job, yes, but they aren't required to have sex with everyone that wants them. I'm not required to dance for anyone I don't want to, and I think that's a very similar situation.

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    that's so fucked up! im glad he was found guilty though. as for the lawyer, i gotta wonder how he manages to sleep at night.

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    Quote Originally Posted by pinkkitten View Post
    that's so fucked up! im glad he was found guilty though. as for the lawyer, i gotta wonder how he manages to sleep at night.
    As an officer of the court he must do everything legally possible to get his client acquitted even if he is guilty. He could not call any whitnesses and must not have found any improperity with the prosicution so he did the only thing he could do; use the Chewbacca defense.

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    ^Every once in a while you pull out a gem...

    "Why would a Wookiee, an eight-foot tall Wookiee, want to live on Endor, with a bunch of two-foot tall Ewoks? That does not make sense! But more important, you have to ask yourself: What does this have to do with this case? Nothing. Ladies and gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case! It does not make sense! Look at me. I'm a lawyer defending a major record company, and I'm talkin' about Chewbacca! Does that make sense? Ladies and gentlemen, I am not making any sense! None of this makes sense! And so you have to remember, when you're in that jury room deliberatin' and conjugatin' the Emancipation Proclamation, [approaches and softens] does it make sense? No! Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, it does not make sense! If Chewbacca lives on Endor, you must acquit! The defense rests."

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    Aw... its the internet. Its not supposed to make sence.
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    Oh, and the lawyer should be subjected to the same treatment as the so-called "whores" he refers to...

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