I really enjoyed your presenting of evidence without sugar coating it.
I do have a question though that doesn’t seem to add up. Help me understand how or why Emily sheets would be allowed to take David Hamblin to court for abuse when her own parents are accused within Hamblin girls victim statements as having been apart of the whole CS…?
Legally, it doesn't matter. Emily Sheets doesn't take anyone to court; a prosecutor looks at her case and makes a determination as to whether or not they believe they can secure a conviction. Additionally, sex crimes cases against rings are likely blocks in a building. You lay the foundation, and build the wall of cases and convictions brick by brick. David Lee Hamblin isn't likely to flip until he's convicted, at which point he'll offer up his accomplices for leniency. Then again, he's right at seventy years old at this point coming up on flu season. It wouldn't raise too many eyebrows if he died of the flu or COVID.
I look at the cases against him as a lot of jockeying at this point. Both sides are posturing, and Ryan Peters has the luxury of offering up informations against others in the ring, and he can bring them up one by one, thereby affecting discovery for Hamblin and Stevenson and delaying a trial indefinitely. This increases the legal expenses for both Hamblin and Stevenson, not to mention the stress for their alleged accomplices who haven't been arrested or charged yet. The financial pressure of a prolonged criminal prosecution is significant. People don't realise that a $10,000 retainer is 40 hours of an attorney's work. It's nothing. It's not even 40 hours of an attorney's work, because criminal attorneys will typically bill out paralegal work at $150 an hour in addition to what they do in terms of work.
Hamblin is easily facing close to mid five figures worth of attorneys fees at this point, if not more. If he goes to trial for both cases, he's easily facing six figures worth of legal fees alone. The longer this drags on the more financial pressure he'll feel, and the same is true of Roselle Stevenson. Cases like this can break someone financially in no time at all.
Peters could just keep having more and more people arrested, thereby dragging this out for Hamblin, Stevenson, and whoever else he charges indefinitely.
Thank you! Your research is amazing!!
I really enjoyed your presenting of evidence without sugar coating it.
I do have a question though that doesn’t seem to add up. Help me understand how or why Emily sheets would be allowed to take David Hamblin to court for abuse when her own parents are accused within Hamblin girls victim statements as having been apart of the whole CS…?
Legally, it doesn't matter. Emily Sheets doesn't take anyone to court; a prosecutor looks at her case and makes a determination as to whether or not they believe they can secure a conviction. Additionally, sex crimes cases against rings are likely blocks in a building. You lay the foundation, and build the wall of cases and convictions brick by brick. David Lee Hamblin isn't likely to flip until he's convicted, at which point he'll offer up his accomplices for leniency. Then again, he's right at seventy years old at this point coming up on flu season. It wouldn't raise too many eyebrows if he died of the flu or COVID.
I look at the cases against him as a lot of jockeying at this point. Both sides are posturing, and Ryan Peters has the luxury of offering up informations against others in the ring, and he can bring them up one by one, thereby affecting discovery for Hamblin and Stevenson and delaying a trial indefinitely. This increases the legal expenses for both Hamblin and Stevenson, not to mention the stress for their alleged accomplices who haven't been arrested or charged yet. The financial pressure of a prolonged criminal prosecution is significant. People don't realise that a $10,000 retainer is 40 hours of an attorney's work. It's nothing. It's not even 40 hours of an attorney's work, because criminal attorneys will typically bill out paralegal work at $150 an hour in addition to what they do in terms of work.
Hamblin is easily facing close to mid five figures worth of attorneys fees at this point, if not more. If he goes to trial for both cases, he's easily facing six figures worth of legal fees alone. The longer this drags on the more financial pressure he'll feel, and the same is true of Roselle Stevenson. Cases like this can break someone financially in no time at all.
Peters could just keep having more and more people arrested, thereby dragging this out for Hamblin, Stevenson, and whoever else he charges indefinitely.