Tuesday, March 7, 2017

Sweden Facebook Live Rape Stream: Lawyer's Statement

Defense attorneys implore their clients not to speak when under investigation. 
Law enforcement hopes against hope that suspects will speak. 

Even when lying, many statements contain up to 90% reliable content information about what happened.  

When a defense attorney speaks for his client to the media, the attorney's own words thus reveal his belief about innocence or guilt and can even signal upcoming strategy.  


The horrific assault took place in an apartment in Uppsala, Sweden where  Afghani migrants video taped their 3 hour rape of the Swedish victim.  
Police rushed to the scene after they were tipped off by someone watching the live stream in horror.
The victim was apparently close to unconscious as the she was assaulted.
Witness Josefine Lundgren, 21, called the police immediately when she tuned into the live footage.

The lawyer said the following:  

“A woman is said to have been raped in an apartment. He is suspected of that.
He denies any criminal offense, he has given in my opinion a perfectly coherent story about what happened.
I cannot go into details, but he has told me in a way that is not contradicted by anything else.

Question for analysis:

In light of the video evidence:  Does the lawyer believe his client is innocent?

“A woman is said to have been raped in an apartment. He is suspected of that.  He denies any criminal offense, he has given in my opinion a perfectly coherent story about what happened.
I cannot go into details, but he has told me in a way that is not contradicted by anything else.

We first notice that the lawyer correctly identifies the victim as a "woman." This may appear to be insignificant, but it is not.  The use of passivity avoids stating that a rape took place, yet he gives the alleged victim the specific gender of "woman" in a sexual assault case.  
Next note that besides not using the word "alleged", he used the imperfect past tense verb "have been", which lengthens time. 

This is, in a sense, an accurate reflection of gang rape which lasted in excess of 3 hours. 

Next we note how well he qualifies:

He does not deny raping, he denies "any criminal activity."  This may give insight into discussion about claiming the drugged victim was "a willing partner" in her own rape as strategy. 

Note still the qualifying:

"he has given in my opinion a perfectly coherent story about what happened."

What is especially interesting here is the order is disrupted to amend the statement with "in my opinion", which allows for others to have an opinion, and even he, himself, to change his opinion.  This is weak.

"He gave a coherent account" is very strong. 

"has given" indicates passing of time and possible coaching. 

"in my opinion" is unnecessary unless...it is necessary. 

"a coherent account" is a "perfectly coherent" (unnecessary emphasis needed) 

"story", which is very likely to be an accurate word in this.  
I cannot go into details, but he has told me in a way that is not contradicted by anything else.

There is an infinite number of ways in which the "story" does not contradict unknown entities.  

Analysis Conclusion:  

the attorney knows his client's guilt.  

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Just idiots! Livestream a rape? Who could doubt the guilt? Poor girl. Send them straight to jail for life. And your lawyer, too. How can anyone defend the indefensible?

lynda said...

Good Lord, and I'd like to know who "stumbles" upon a rape being taped? What in the hell are they googling?

Katprint said...

I have "stumbled" upon some really yucky porn while trying to look up something completely unrelated (the geographic location of the Orinoco Flow, after hearing the song sung by Celtic Women). Nothing criminal, thank goodness, but still pretty nasty. I think some sites pretend to be other sites to trick people into clicking on them to earn advertising banner revenue.

Trudy said...

Is the word "coherent" being used in an attempt to persuade that coherence is equivalent to truth?

Foolsfeedonfolly said...



It's likely to be a "perfectly coherent story" too, as in well-coached, well-memorized, well-rehearsed. This tells me that the subject at some point gave an incoherent story to either the attorney or police. It suggests that the attorney then took the incoherent, ironed out all the kinks, straightened the rough spots, and scripted a story for his client to tell.

A story is not the same as an account or testimony.

Trudy said...

Hi FFOF. In retrospect, I think the word the lawyer was looking for was "cogent" and he used "coherent" by mistake.

I know that if someone doesn't say something, we are not permitted to say it for them, but does that apply when the subject has used a word incorrectly, or are there linguistic clues to be found in the incorrect word choice? Vernal Kunz's "replica" of a security blanket springs to mind.

Trigger said...

I get the lawyer's attempt to minimize the "rape" so his client can justify his criminal behavior towards this targeted infidel woman.

There is a perfectly coherent reason in the Koran. Muslim men have the right to target non-Muslim women and children for purposes of rape and murder. If it is a "righteous" act, then how can it be criminal?

Those self-righeous attackers are blaming the victim as required under Islamic law.








Trudy said...

I should not have relied on the definition of coherent from my own personal dictionary.

Trudy said...

Still, perfectly coherent doesnt mean perfectly truthful. Does it?