HEARING REPORT – Recalling the principle of individualization of sentences and maintaining that the accused were not aware of committing rape, the criminal lawyers urged the court not to carry out a “group trial” and to detach themselves from the the voice of the people.
For two weeks, thirty-seven lawyers took turns at the bar of the Vaucluse criminal court to defend the fifty-one accused of the Mazan rapes. A little more than thirty called for acquittal, even though the public prosecutor’s office had requested between four and eighteen years in prison for Dominique Pelicot’s co-defendants.
Requisitions judged by the defense “particularly severe”, “disproportionate”, “unfair”, “unreasonable”, “inconsistent”. Lawyers denounce “a global trial”and “group trial”and “marathon trial”and “river trial” where the notion of individualization of sentences has been completely ruled out.
Brief, “it’s Outreau” bis, the summary Me Louis-Alain Lemaire, comparing the Mazan rape trial to this legal fiasco, and establishing a parallel between Dominique Pelicot and the mythomaniac Myriam Badaoui, who managed to swallow up thirteen people with her (subsequently exonerated). “The Pelicot tornado devastated everything in its path. A…
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