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9. Victims' Rights

Alan Shore defends a twelve-year-old girl who is trying to escape an arranged marriage in her home country. Eugene tries to help a man who is seeking justice for the brutal murder of his wife. Alan leaves his usual rhetorical tricks aside to deliver an impassioned closing in which he almost persuades the judge that arranged marriage of a pre-teen girl is tantamount to sanctioning rape. The wife-killing suspect is acquitted but to Eugene's horror that's not the end of the story.

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Alan Shore defends a twelve-year-old girl who is trying to escape an arranged marriage in her home country. Eugene tries to help a man who is seeking justice for the brutal murder of his wife. Alan leaves his usual rhetorical tricks aside to deliver an impassioned closing in which he almost persuades the judge that arranged marriage of a pre-teen girl is tantamount to sanctioning rape. The wife-killing suspect is acquitted but to Eugene's horror that's not the end of the story.

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