I've seen worse. Back when the Criminal Offence was Rape, rather than Sexual Assault a standard tactic for Criminal Defence lawyers was to ask the victim "how do you know it wasn't his thumb, a booze bottle, a broom stick, ... since the rape statute required penetration with a penis.

The Sexual Assault Offence did away with that Red Herring, but Criminal Lawyers have been very creative in trying to find other ways to get criminals off without convictions.

Criminal Courts are not about Justice, they are about process. We need to limit the number of scams they can pull.

A common bogus defence tactics in criminal assault trials is to claim that the victim somehow provoked the assault.

In one trial involving a speeder the defence lawyer said that the dead victim should have assumed that the killer could be doing 90 kph in a 50 kph zone when he saw the car far down the road before starting a turn onto the road.