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Originally Posted by killer_carlson
I don't know if that was bad lawyering or not. His case couldn't have gotten any worse. In the court of public opinion, the pervert has been tried and convicted. I think by having him do the interview and deny the charges and stake his intent to fight them, it might be a strategy to keep those victims who are afraid to come forward or whom he still has control over, to stay quiet.
I hope it backfires in his pervert face, but I don't know if it is bad lawyering.
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That's an interesting take on it, I never considered that. The issue is that enough victims have come forward that any move meat to silence the rest is really pointless. Like Vlad said doing this interview is nearly equivalent to him taking the stand at trial, and you'd be hard pressed to find a competent criminal defense attorney who would advise a client to do that in a case like this.
The public has already decided he's guilty, and they have plenty to base that on, all this interview did was let him add a series of chilling quotes to the mix.