is this people say why would the victim

whoever it is lie why would they make it

up and in fact you can be sure that’s

the argument the prosecutor will make in

their final argument you have to answer

that question in a way that’s consistent

with your clients innocence or you’re

going to lose the other difficulty with

those cases is that they’re absolutely

inflammatory

uh with jurors so what will happen is

the jury panel is brought into the

courtroom for the beginning of jury

selection the judge will tell the jurors

prospective jurors what the case is

about probably read the complaint charge

portion and the jurors will be visibly

affected by just the charges you can see

them lean back in their seeds cross

their arms uh begin to give your client

nasty looks this is before anything

happens in the case so really there’s

kind of a presumption of guilt there

isn’t supposed to be but I would I would

have to say that there is and and these

are the two core challenges in any sex

uh crime prosecution