Immigration: Strauss Kahn

Paul Shechtman Dept: Benjamin Brafman , Mr. Strauss-Kahn’s lawyer, denied the accusations in a hearing Monday and offered what may be the first hint of the defence’s case. “The forensic evidence, we believe, will not be consistent with a forcible encounter,” he said, according to Globe And Mail. There may be a third path in Mr. Strauss-Kahn’s case. “The defences here are that this was consensual, that she is just mistaken somehow, or that Sarkozy is a trickster,” said Paul Shechtman, a criminal defence attorney, referring to conjecture that Nicolas Sarkozy, the current French President, could have somehow set a trap for his political rival and in allegations that have ignited a furor on both sides of the Atlantic, prosecutors claimed Mr. Strauss-Kahn attempted to rape a hotel maid in his luxury suite in Manhattan’s Sofitel hotel on Saturday, grabbing her chest and crotch and forcing her to perform oral sex. Experts say that in sexual assault cases, defence lawyers almost always take one of two approaches, either arguing that the alleged incident didn’t involve force, or maintaining that it didn’t happen at all. As reported in the news.
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