An attorney who helped keep his client out of prison after he kidnapped and sexually assaulted a retail clerk said the defendant's light punishment seemed appropriate, given his youth and clean record.
The attorney futher said that no one could have predicted that his client would commit a similar crime almost 20 years later (this time killing his victim).
"It was a shock, if you want to know the truth."
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So what's your point? That the attorney somehow is at least partially guilty? That defendants should be automatically committed forever? That they can't be "cured"? Unfortunately the recidivism rates for sex crimes don't agree.
20 years later? Heck, unless a case was a major battle, the client a major pain in the rear, or the client is a frequent flyer I couldn't remember them 5 years later.
Anyway, it sounds like this guy only remembers a scared kid. 20 years later there might be a little room to be shocked.
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