Photo: Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images As R. Kelly’s long-awaited criminal trial got underway last week, I was unsurprised to see that the most public-facing of the four defense lawyers representing Kelly was also the lone woman among them. If you are a hugely famous alleged rapist and sex pest with accusers in the double digits, there is an obvious optical advantage to having a woman as the public face of your legal team.
No high-profile sexual-assault defense attorney has been as straightforward about this devil’s bargain as Donna Rotunno, who defended Harvey Weinstein. “I have the ability to get away with a lot more in a courtroom cross-examining a female than a male lawyer does,” she said in a pre-Weinstein Chicago Magazine interview.
Like Becker, Bonjean has also cited a personal history of advocating for victims of sexual assault to bolster her own credibility in working against them later. Her official bio, while less hokey than Becker’s, says her work as a victims’ advocate inspired her to go to law school to change the justice system from within. According to her, this is how she came to defend Cosby in his appeal, as she determined that it was he who was wronged by the flawed system, not his victims.
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