Lee. I understand your point of view. I have given evidence in a lot of trials, and I have used that in several novels. In one of them*, I wrote about a barrister defending the repeated rape of a child. Said barrister asks the victim if (one of) the rapists is an attractive man
Confronted outside the court, following the guilty verdict, the lawyer explains, as Polar Bear suggests, that he has been passed a very shitty stick. He either deals with it, passes it on to some other poor bastard, or the REAL twat gets off on appeal.
*Ride On