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'Your Honour, I am here in a unique position.

律師的自責陳詞 · 初步舉證 (2022)

'Your Honour, I am here in a unique position.

「法官大人，我在這兒的位置是獨一無二的。

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'Usually, I stand at the bar, 'but now I am in this courtroom as a witness, a complainant, a victim.

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1'Your Honour, I am here in a unique position.「法官大人，我在這兒的位置是獨一無二的。
2'Usually, I stand at the bar , 'but now I am in this courtroom as a witness, a complainant, a victim .「通常我站在律師席，可現在我在這個法庭裡是證人，是控告人，是受害人。
3'As a barrister, I have questioned women in sexual assault cases「作為大律師，我盤問過性侵案子裡的女人，
4' on the assumption that evidence can be delivered in a clean, logical package ,「預設證據可以交成一份乾淨、合乎邏輯的材料，
5'and now I have seen from my own attempts here that it cannot be.「而現在我從自己在這兒的嘗試看見，做不到。
6'In all of my professional life, 'I have participated in a system that has done this to women,「我當律師這些年，一直參與著一套這樣對待女人的制度，
7'and now I know it is not right.「現在我知道這不對。
8'It is not reasonable, because now I know, 'from my own life, both as a woman and a lawyer,「這不合理，因為現在我知道，從我自己的生活，既作為女人也作為律師，
9'that the lived experience of sexual assault, 'it is not remembered in a neat, consistent, scientific parcel.「性侵的親身經歷，不會被記成一份整整齊齊、前後一致、像科學記錄那樣的材料。
10'And it's because of that, the law often finds evidence "unbelievable".「正因為這樣，法律常常覺得證據『不可信』。
11'So, I understand a witness can be mistaken in their evidence.「所以，我理解證人在證詞裡會記錯。
12'I have suggested it time and time again .「我一次又一次這麼主張過。
13'But this is not a car accident, or a home invasion.「可這不是車禍，也不是入室行兇。
14'This is rape.「這是強姦。
15'It's a crime against the person and now I know.「這是針對人身的罪，現在我知道了。
16'You know, when a woman says "no", when her actions say "no",「你知道，當一個女人說『不』，當她的行動說『不』，
17'it is not a subtle , unreadable thing at all.「那一點也不含糊，也不是讀不懂的。
18'Yet before this, I too, I would suggest that she was mistaken.「可在這之前，我也會主張她記錯了。
19'But when a woman has been violated, it is a corrosive wound.「可當一個女人被侵犯，那是一道腐蝕性的傷。
20'It is one that starts with terror and pain deep into the body.「它從深入身體的恐懼和疼痛開始。
21'It then overtakes the mind, the soul.「然後蓋過心智，蓋過靈魂。
22'Yet before this, I too, I would suggest that "she was confused".「可在這之前，我也會主張『她當時是糊塗的』。」
23'I mean, the message is, if we do not deliver our evidence neatly「我是說，這意思就是，如果我們不能把證據交得整齊，
24'in a clear linear story, with consistency in recall , then we are lying.「也講不成一條清楚、順著往下的故事，回憶也對不上，那我們就是在說謊。
25'Yet before this, I would point out inconsistencies as proof of doubt.「可在這之前，我會把對不上的地方指出來，當作懷疑的證明。
26'I would tell the jury they couldn't possibly be sure.「我會告訴陪審團，他們不可能確定。
27'As a lawyer I know, I know,「作為律師我知道，我知道，
28'the law, it cannot jettison consistency entirely, but in sexual assault cases,「法律不能把一致性整個扔掉，可在性侵案子裡，
29'can we keep using it as the litmus test of credibility?「我們還能繼續拿它當可信度的試金石嗎？
30'Because, as a victim, let me tell you「因為，作為一個受害人，讓我告訴你們，
31'the rape and the perpetrator, they are vividly recalled.「強姦本身，和那個加害的人，記得清清楚楚。
32'The peripheral details, not so clearly.「邊上的細節，就沒那麼清楚。
33'If a woman is rattled by having to relive the nightmare in court,「如果一個女人因為得在法庭上把那場噩夢再過一遍而慌了，
34'if a woman's experience of rape is not as the court likes it to be,「如果一個女人被強姦的經歷，不像法庭想要的那樣，
35'then we conclude that she is prone to exaggeration 'and it's because of this she is so often disbelieved .「我們就斷定她容易誇張，也正因為這樣，她才那麼經常不被相信。
36'So here in court, I want to call it out .'「所以在這個法庭上，我要把它點破。」

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