A federal jury in Manhattan on Monday found former star real estate brokers Oren and Tal Alexander and their brother Alon guilty on all 10 counts of sex trafficking and related crimes. During a five-week trial, prosecutors said the Alexander brothers worked together to drug and rape scores of women, including minors, from at least 2008 to 2021. Eleven women testified that one or more of the brothers had sexually assaulted them, and jurors were shown a video Oren Alexander recorded of himself raping an incapacitated 17-year-old girl in 2009.

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    7 days ago

    I’m sorry but thats not “we believe our clients innocence”. That is a statement of almost certain inaccuracy from their knowledge and a pretty huge sign of their lack of values. Neither needs to fold into being a good lawyer and defending your client.

    But yeah, sure, I gave up earning money by quitting my job on values. That doesn’t mean they need to, it just means they chose money over being decent humans

    Fuck them

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      4 days ago

      I mean, that’s literally a lawyer’s job and required by law. If you represent someone,you represent them in their entirety. You can turn down clients, but there’s little money in only defending innocent people

    • Bob Robertson IX @discuss.tchncs.de
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      7 days ago

      Not many lawyers get into the profession because they want to be decent humans… their job involves people paying them money to be on their side so obviously a defense attorney’s values are motivated very heavily by money.