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Meshel Laurie

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Australian True Crime
Should Victims Be The Focus In Court?

It was definitely under 12 months.

Australian True Crime
Should Victims Be The Focus In Court?

Wow.

Australian True Crime
Should Victims Be The Focus In Court?

Okay.

Australian True Crime
Should Victims Be The Focus In Court?

It's now to be two years, isn't it?

Australian True Crime
Should Victims Be The Focus In Court?

Yeah, because what do you have to do during that period of time?

Australian True Crime
Should Victims Be The Focus In Court?

It feels like there would be a lot of work essentially for you to do, wouldn't there?

Australian True Crime
Should Victims Be The Focus In Court?

So I didn't have to give evidence.

Australian True Crime
Should Victims Be The Focus In Court?

Right.

Australian True Crime
Should Victims Be The Focus In Court?

Because I was just thinking if heaven forbid you get a detail wrong, then they're going to say, oh, well, her memory, she can't remember it.

Australian True Crime
Should Victims Be The Focus In Court?

So everything you've put in retrospectively, they'd want

Australian True Crime
Should Victims Be The Focus In Court?

Exactly.

Australian True Crime
Should Victims Be The Focus In Court?

Which are lesser charges.

Australian True Crime
Should Victims Be The Focus In Court?

So that's less jail time and all of that stuff.

Australian True Crime
Should Victims Be The Focus In Court?

So in the interest of the rest of us, like, I don't want your rapist back out in the streets anywhere near where I live or any other woman lives, you know?

Australian True Crime
Should Victims Be The Focus In Court?

So then what's the reason for that?

Australian True Crime
Should Victims Be The Focus In Court?

Are they also saying to you, oh, because we might lose if we go to court on these higher charges?

Australian True Crime
Should Victims Be The Focus In Court?

Like, what's the benefit?

Australian True Crime
Should Victims Be The Focus In Court?

No, the evidence was there.

Australian True Crime
Should Victims Be The Focus In Court?

Yeah.

Australian True Crime
Should Victims Be The Focus In Court?

So what's the benefit to you and to the rest of us if he gets his charges?