Thread by @Hareshraichura

Thread : What to keep in mind while arguing criminal cases involving finnancial frauds.

1) In cases involving murders etc, human emotions are involved. Various kinds of human circumstances evoke emotions that lead to the crime of murder. All these human factors are relevant.

2/ So even if it may look that the crime is such that death penalty should be given, when a lawyer minutely works on a series of emotional issues that lead upto the very minute of the crime, the judge may decide not to give death penalty.

3/ But cases involving financial frauds are different. Here the have usually zero sympathy towards accused.

These criminal cases of finnancial frauds are quite different. Sometimes amounts are huge and sometimes the amounts are very small..

4/ #Judges normally think like this in such cases, "I will convict this accused unless I am bound to acquit, no matter whether the amount is small or big, unless I am bound to acquit him because of some lacuna in evidence or because of some technical legal difficulty".

5/ So here a #Lawyers has to work on a) loopholes kept in such law by law makers themselves. These loopholes are such that big fishes can escape but small fishes remain trapped in law of net. The loopholes in such law are normally invisible to common man".

6/ Secondly, #lawyers have to focus on "missing links in evidence". In such money fraud cases, lot of money work behind the curtain. Accused are very powerful persons and they often ensure that crucial evidence is missing in police investigation chargesheet.

9/ Look around in #Courts to see how cases involving finnancial frauds are involved. The defense #lawyers may be arguing mostly about a) Technical issues and b) Missing evidences.