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

律师的自责陈词 · 初步举证 (2022)

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

「法官大人，我在这儿的位置是独一无二的。

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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，我在这儿的位置是独一无二的。
2'Usually, I stand at the bar , 'but now I am in this courtroom as a witness, a complainant, a victim .「通常我站在律师席，可现在我在这个法庭里是证人，是控告人，是受害人。
3'As a barrister, I have questioned women in sexual assault cases「作为大律师，我盘问过性侵案子里的女人，
4' on the assumption that evidence can be delivered in a clean, logical package ,「默认证据可以交成一份干净、合乎逻辑的材料，
5'and now I have seen from my own attempts here that it cannot be.「而现在我从自己在这儿的尝试看见，做不到。
6'In all of my professional life, 'I have participated in a system that has done this to women,「我当律师这些年，一直参与着一套这样对待女人的制度，
7'and now I know it is not right.「现在我知道这不对。
8'It is not reasonable, because now I know, 'from my own life, both as a woman and a lawyer,「这不合理，因为现在我知道，从我自己的生活，既作为女人也作为律师，
9'that the lived experience of sexual assault, 'it is not remembered in a neat, consistent, scientific parcel.「性侵的亲身经历，不会被记成一份整整齐齐、前后一致、像科学记录那样的材料。
10'And it's because of that, the law often finds evidence "unbelievable".「正因为这样，法律常常觉得证据『不可信』。
11'So, I understand a witness can be mistaken in their evidence.「所以，我理解证人在证词里会记错。
12'I have suggested it time and time again .「我一次又一次这么主张过。
13'But this is not a car accident, or a home invasion.「可这不是车祸，也不是入室行凶。
14'This is rape.「这是强奸。
15'It's a crime against the person and now I know.「这是针对人身的罪，现在我知道了。
16'You know, when a woman says "no", when her actions say "no",「你知道，当一个女人说『不』，当她的行动说『不』，
17'it is not a subtle , unreadable thing at all.「那一点也不含糊，也不是读不懂的。
18'Yet before this, I too, I would suggest that she was mistaken.「可在这之前，我也会主张她记错了。
19'But when a woman has been violated, it is a corrosive wound.「可当一个女人被侵犯，那是一道腐蚀性的伤。
20'It is one that starts with terror and pain deep into the body.「它从深入身体的恐惧和疼痛开始。
21'It then overtakes the mind, the soul.「然后盖过心智，盖过灵魂。
22'Yet before this, I too, I would suggest that "she was confused".「可在这之前，我也会主张『她当时是糊涂的』。」
23'I mean, the message is, if we do not deliver our evidence neatly「我是说，这意思就是，如果我们不能把证据交得整齐，
24'in a clear linear story, with consistency in recall , then we are lying.「也讲不成一条清楚、顺着往下的故事，回忆也对不上，那我们就是在说谎。
25'Yet before this, I would point out inconsistencies as proof of doubt.「可在这之前，我会把对不上的地方指出来，当作怀疑的证明。
26'I would tell the jury they couldn't possibly be sure.「我会告诉陪审团，他们不可能确定。
27'As a lawyer I know, I know,「作为律师我知道，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个扔掉，可在性侵案子里，
29'can we keep using it as the litmus test of credibility?「我们还能继续拿它当可信度的试金石吗？
30'Because, as a victim, let me tell you「因为，作为一个受害人，让我告诉你们，
31'the rape and the perpetrator, they are vividly recalled.「强奸本身，和那个加害的人，记得清清楚楚。
32'The peripheral details, not so clearly.「边上的细节，就没那么清楚。
33'If a woman is rattled by having to relive the nightmare in court,「如果一个女人因为得在法庭上把那场噩梦再过一遍而慌了，
34'if a woman's experience of rape is not as the court likes it to be,「如果一个女人被强奸的经历，不像法庭想要的那样，
35'then we conclude that she is prone to exaggeration 'and it's because of this she is so often disbelieved .「我们就断定她容易夸张，也正因为这样，她才那么经常不被相信。
36'So here in court, I want to call it out .'「所以在这个法庭上，我要把它点破。」

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