"Richter has quit" ... indeed.
He says that "the guilty verdict was perverse", and yet in his (Richters') own words, he made the decision to describe Pell's crime as just "vanilla" (which could be interpreted to mean in his opinion a "fairly harmless") sexual attack perpetrated on the children.
What utter hypocrites; all of them, the defendant and his lawyer/s. They really do deserve each other in the most painful way. They bleed inside each others self inflicted wounds, and they want to have it both ways, depending on who can be convinced within their rose coloured blinkers.
Making a plea using the words he did for a shorter sentence clearly indicated (in my opinion) just what kind of character the lawyer has, just like his client.
Of all the pleas he could have put before the judge, it was that one that was totally sickening and so obviously an attempt to make what is an appalling crime appear to be nothing of real significance and therefore, be treated leniently.
In the real world, that is not what victims experience .. it only exists in the minds of certain "smart" lawyers who can sleep at night regardless.
The fact that the lawyer resigned from the case is very telling also. I suspect certainly not for the reasons he gave or only because he was upset at the verdict. The apology he gave was very shallow.
I do not want, need, require or expect anyone to agree with me.
