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A Boston Criminal Defense Attorney?s View Of Knowledge And Guilt In The Criminal Justice System

By Altman & Altman

As a Boston criminal defense attorney, there is an oft-said and ill-fated sentence claimed by clients. It reads, ??but I didn?t know that was illegal!? Unfortunately, such lack of knowledge does not usually matter. They really mean it when they say ?ignorance of the law is no excuse?. Further, there are times when ignorance of the facts is basically irrelevent. A prime example of the latter is the case of statutory rape. ?But I didn?t know she was just shy of her thirteenth birthday?she told me she was twenty-five? is not going to be a viable defense. Another example is something that a psychiatrist who teaches at Harvard Medical School (clearly not an ignorant man by any estimation, yet, hereinafter, the ?Defendant?) said this week about the trouble in which he has now found himself...continue to full post

Full post as published by Boston Criminal lawyer Blog on June 11, 2010 (boomark / email).