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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Kevin Reddington is one of the most elite trial attorneys in the country with a great record defending his clients. As a former prosecutor and criminal defense attorney myself, I can attest that what people on this board think about his performance is irrelevant in the face of his record of success. He connects with juries and persuades them with the better story. I remain convinced this woman won’t be convicted as charged.

https://www.patriotledger.com/story/news/2023/02/08/duxbury-lindsay-clancys-attorney-kevin-reddington-history-high-profile-clients/69880508007/[/quote]

Many of the clients listed in that article either plead guilty or were found guilty. None of the listed clients seem like upstanding citizens with bad luck. [/quote]

This defense attorney won an acquittal for a woman who killed her partner while he slept, successfully arguing a battered woman defense - this is an outstanding outcome.

Your comment merely reveals how little you know about the workings of the criminal system. Winning acquittals in cases with the most egregious facts is not really the expected objective- it’s great if it happens, but the defense attorney’s goal is often to hang a jury or convince them to settle for lesser included charges which preserve their client’s opportunity for release and returning to a life outside incarceration at some point. That’s true even when you may believe wholeheartedly that your client is actually innocent - the worst cases because it’s soul crushing to see our system wrongfully convict innocent people and leave victims without actual justice.

Defense attorneys know that the vast majority of their clients will be guilty and culpable to some degree with mitigating factors considered. Their oath is to defend the Constitution with zealous advocacy on behalf of individuals at the mercy of the state. They hold the sacred role of keeping the state to account for acting within the law and protecting the rights of all citizens, including the accused.

Anyone who knows the criminal justice system knows that the greatest defense attorneys are not measured by the number of acquittals they’ve won, but by how they’ve leveraged their skill and integrity to get the most justice for their clients within a system everyone knows is deeply flawed and in some places broken.[/quote]

This woman was not abused as far as we know and, by all accounts, lived a pretty damn charmed life.  Don’t even compare this to a battered woman syndrome defense.  Just don’t.  [/quote]

I didn’t. And you are a self righteous moron. Women with post partum depression devolving into psychosis who kill their children are victims of mental illness, just as much as abused women are victims of an abuser. Neither woman had control of her fate. Actually, battered women at least have an opportunity to leave - you can’t leave your own head.

And before you come back at me with some vile crap, I want you to know that my earliest childhood memory ~3 years old is being trapped in my play pen screaming in terror as I watch my father beat and rape my mother on the floor right next to me. 3 years old. I endured repeats of the performance for years afterward, too. I became a DV advocate as an adult, then spent years as a prosecutor putting abusers and molesters in prison. There is NOTHING you can educate me about when it comes to domestic violence. I would kindly suggest you just shut up.[/quote]

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