#33 Well, Kid, You Blew It
My client was a stepfather of a 13-year-old girl and an eight-year-old boy. Allegedly, my client did inappropriate stuff. The mom was in a rehab facility at the time. My theory of the case was that the girl made the whole thing up because my client refused to pay for modelling classes for the girl. The boy testified and said he saw the criminal act from where he was sitting on a recliner. On cross-examination, I asked how he could see what happened since the lights were low at the time and my client (who is 6-feet tall and weighs 200 lbs) was in between them. He said he was told to say that by the sister and the prosecutor’s victim coordinator. The prosecutor rested her case. I shut up and sat down. I presented no defense and it took the jury three minutes to find him not guilty.
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