It is outrageous how lawyers and their clients attempt to manipulate both the law & responsibilities.
Worse still, is that far too often the Judge or Magistrate will go along with it.
Even they don't, a lot of these crims are being handed weak sentences.
They might as well give them six cuts of the cane, and tell them them not to do it again,
and as most of us know, the victims rights are outweighed by the rights of the criminal.
