AZlawyer
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I've watched many trials over the last couple of decades and I've seen this particular style of defense escalate out of control in murder trials. It's always been an issue in sex assault (still not right) but it's really exploded in murder trials. Not only is the DEAD victim totally denigrated but the surviving victims, as defined by law, are revictimized having to listen to this fabricated garbage. If it can escalate, it can deescalate in my opinion.
I wonder how often the strategy actually works? In my experience, defense lawyers will drop a strategy pretty quickly if a study comes out showing that it backfires.