Irish women and women’s rights supporters are angry. Earlier this week, a 27-year-old man in Ireland was acquitted of raping a 17-year-old girl—but this verdict wasn’t what triggered the outrage. Rather, by the justification of the man’s defense lawyer. In the trial, his senior counsel Elizabeth O’Connell’s closing argument included literally presenting the teenager’s underwear for all the court to see. “Does the evidence out-rule the possibility that she was attracted to the defendant and was open to meeting someone […]
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