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wildcard_dreame ([info]princessjessia) wrote in [info]unfunnybusiness,
@ 2009-05-27 15:32:00


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I hate people.
Hassan Nagi should not receive a harsh sentence for rapes, Sydney court hears

TAXI driver Hassan Nagi should not receive a harsh sentence for raping three women as he suffered a condition called "Don Juanism" which made him addicted to sex, his barrister said yesterday.

Clive Steirn SC also urged a District Court judge in Sydney to spare the sex predator a "crushing" sentence because he never bashed his victims while he was raping them.

"There was no gratuitous violence. None of the women was physically harmed. It's an important consideration," he said.

The submissions drew gasps from the public gallery, including from two of Nagi's victims. It also earned a rebuke from Judge James Bennett who said: "He doesn't get rewarded for not belting them."

Mr Steirn said Nagi, 37, from Bexley, had been diagnosed with Don Juanism after visiting brothels from the age of 20. The disorder was "a man's equivalent of nymphomania".


Article from February with details of the cases.

I still have no words. I actually Googled this, hoping it wasn't true, which was how I found the earlier article that just increased my RAGE.


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[info]temaris
2009-05-28 09:52 am UTC (link)
Actually, a lawyer works for his client, and if the client insists that the lawyer make some asinine mitigation plea, the lawyer has to make the asinine mitigation plea. This is often easy to spot because the lawyer usually prefaces it with 'I am instructed by my client to say/ask/tell the court'...

Which is not to say it's impossible the lawyer is a dick: many are. But I know a couple of criminal defense lawyers and well, clients sometimes are just appalling, and want them to say stupid things, and if the lawyer can't talk them out of it, they're stuck :( And if the lawyers picked and chose who they accepted as clients, many miscarriages of justice would happen.

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[info]kookaburra
2009-05-29 08:14 am UTC (link)
Yeah, that's why I could never be a lawyer (my Aunt is, and tried to convince me that I'd like it). If you're a defense lawyer, you have this situation, and if you're a prosecutor, you have to nail people for violating laws, even if you think said laws are unconstitutional.

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