Disclaimer: This isn't based on any experience I've been involved with, let alone my own direct life experience.
Is it appropriate for persons with close relations to someone believed to have committed a heinous crime, or convicted of said crime, to ask for forgiveness from the victim and those close to him?
Is it insensitive for persons so close to the person whom the victim and those with intimate relations to him might naturally be expected to hate and want to do harm to to try to speak in defense of the accused or guilty?
Feel free to differentiate between the statuses of guilt and presumed guilt.
Yes, an inference that I don't believe in this context it's usually appropriate to defend the supposed otherwise good character of the defendant to the alleged victim and ask him to forgive him, would be correct.
Even absent a conviction, I would be outraged if I had to go through this and then had the accused good points told to me.
Yet, I don't believe in revenge.
2006-09-06
06:23:06
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