Wednesday, August 31, 2016
Impressive jury smarts
Perfectly obvious false accusation. A retired lawyer, 78 years old and clearly starting to lose his sharpness, stopped to help a female crackhead who had crashed her car because she was on crack. She persuaded him to take her to his house instead of the hospital. Stuff happened, including sex and probably an attempted robbery. Presumably the robbery failed, so the crackhead brought rape charges against the not-so-sharp old dude to avoid being charged herself.
Classic.
Jury rejected the charges entirely. Bravo. Not hugely surprising, because Spokane juries are consistently good at rejecting shit. Still worth a bravo.
The only unusual aspect is that the persecutor decided to pursue false charges against a fellow lawyer. Normally the family sticks together. Did the old lawyer defeat the persecutor a long time ago? Is this a grudge match?
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