"davedave1111" (davedave1111)
10/15/2014 at 17:13 • Filed to: None
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"davedave1111" (davedave1111)
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This is a pretty terrible story at heart, about a couple who kept a child as a slave for nine years.
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The court had to calculate the value of the work carried out by the girl when she was being exploited and also the sum of benefits claimed fraudulently in her name.
The judge based it on the minimum wage, assuming she worked for 12 hours a day, seven days a week.
Lawyers for the couple argued a deduction should be made for board and lodging accrued by the girl when she was with them.
Fortunately the judge gave that the weight it deserves - well, no, he was scathing about it but didn't punch the lawyers concerned - so we can laugh. That's right up there with the guy who killed both his parents and then asked the court for leniency because he was an orphan.
For Sweden
> davedave1111
10/15/2014 at 17:20 |
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True story: I could never be a lawyer. You can be a dick or commit malpractice, but you have to choose one.
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davedave1111
> For Sweden
10/15/2014 at 17:28 |
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Not necessarily. The lawyer in this case shouldn't have even tried to make that argument. He was a dick, and he would not have been committing malpractice if he hadn't made the argument because he really should have foreseen that it would only piss the judge off and make his clients look even worse.