Plea in Mitigation
Plea in Mitigation in favour of Mr A
Your honour, please grant me permission to make a plea in mitigation in favour my client Mr A, who has been charged with the offence of rape on Miss B , an ex-member of a temple and the offense is punishable under Criminal Code sec 249 which refers to Rape wherein it is mentioned that :
(1) Any person who is guilty of the crime of rape shall be liable to penal servitude for a term which shall not be less than 10 years. The substance of my plea is that despite all his collaboration and good faith, he has been found as guilty.
Before coming for this plea, I had a conference of one hour with my client and could find the serious depressive and desperate state he is presently in and I would request your full comprehension to get him out of this situation.
Your honour, my client has ab Initio claimed to be victim of false allegation and is consistently claiming the same thing till now and as he earlier said, the truth will come out at the end. Today, he asked me to report the following details to the court:
The facts reported by the victim started precisely in 1999, 15 years ago when my client was not yet married. He met with miss B at the temple and after some time, they fell in love to each other. They planned to get married very soon. In the meantime, they voluntarily had sexual intercourse on several occasions.
My client found no issue in having sex with the plaintiff due to her age of 19 and that she gave her consent and was always cooperating in the acts and anyway they were to get married.
However, after one year of strong relationship during year 2000, miss B, asked my client to postpone any plan for immediate wedding because she wanted to fly to the UK for further studies which my client agreed to finance. However, due to unexpected financial difficulties, my client failed to meet with the promise in time.
In Jan 2001, the relationship broke between them but miss B continued to come to the temple
Your honour, please grant me permission to make a plea in mitigation in favour my client Mr A, who has been charged with the offence of rape on Miss B , an ex-member of a temple and the offense is punishable under Criminal Code sec 249 which refers to Rape wherein it is mentioned that :
(1) Any person who is guilty of the crime of rape shall be liable to penal servitude for a term which shall not be less than 10 years. The substance of my plea is that despite all his collaboration and good faith, he has been found as guilty.
Before coming for this plea, I had a conference of one hour with my client and could find the serious depressive and desperate state he is presently in and I would request your full comprehension to get him out of this situation.
Your honour, my client has ab Initio claimed to be victim of false allegation and is consistently claiming the same thing till now and as he earlier said, the truth will come out at the end. Today, he asked me to report the following details to the court:
The facts reported by the victim started precisely in 1999, 15 years ago when my client was not yet married. He met with miss B at the temple and after some time, they fell in love to each other. They planned to get married very soon. In the meantime, they voluntarily had sexual intercourse on several occasions.
My client found no issue in having sex with the plaintiff due to her age of 19 and that she gave her consent and was always cooperating in the acts and anyway they were to get married.
However, after one year of strong relationship during year 2000, miss B, asked my client to postpone any plan for immediate wedding because she wanted to fly to the UK for further studies which my client agreed to finance. However, due to unexpected financial difficulties, my client failed to meet with the promise in time.
In Jan 2001, the relationship broke between them but miss B continued to come to the temple