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Wednesday, 27 July 2016

There are no words

Public Enemy No. 1, Age 3: A three-year-old — yes, a 36-or-so month old child — was acquitted “of charges of robbery, resisting arrest, and terrorising citizens in three out of four cases. He was sentenced to three years in prison in absentia” on another charge in a case that apparently began when the child’s father registered a commercial vehicle in the boy’s name. The boy’s lawyer was in court recently to try to get the third and final case kicked. The Daily News has the full story, including a photo of the very cute child in court with his lawyer. Yes, a three-year-old child. In court. With his lawyer. As a defendant in a criminal case.

Said another lawyer in the Nasr City courtroom: “It was a different experience. The scene in court was ridiculous. Bystanders in the court could not believe that a lawyer was carrying his defendant in front of the judge.”

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