Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when the little girl is older, she can understand this mess. At that time, last summer, the future didn't look so bleak to Letourneau. She was still talking to her other four children, her "angels," even though they were moving to Alaska with their dad Steven. True, her lawyer, David Gehrke, was telling her she had to plead guilty to "rape of a child." Such a ridiculous charge, she thought. Why couldn't everyone realize that Vili had come on to her for months? But Dave and his wife Susan were friends from the neighborhood, good people who assured...
...infirmary--which is equipped with a phone that she uses constantly--prison is still a terrible place to be pregnant. The appeal of her original case will take weeks just to plan, weeks more to be heard, weeks more to be decided. Susan Howards, her Boston-based appellate lawyer, has been to Seattle only once, for a few hours. Months, years could pass. Mary is due to give birth to another angel in the fall, and within 48 hours, a state law enforcer will take the child from...
...inner circle of Mary's friends, a troika who have requested anonymity even as they talk among themselves of a "campaign" to burnish Mary's public image, insist that Steve was having affairs and abusing Mary, mostly verbally but with an occasional shove. (Steve Letourneau and his lawyer turned down several interview requests.) It got to the point that they were barely civil. Therapist Moore says Mary remembered that when she told Steve about her father's cancer, he growled, "What do you want...
Somehow, no one beyond the police discovered just how bad it looked. The cops called Soona, but Fualaau family lawyer Robert Huff says they spoke with her "for half a minute" before allowing Mary to tell Soona a G-rated version of the incident. "Mary's a great talker," Huff says, "and Soona calmed down." Soona then told the police it was O.K. for Vili to go home with Mary; for reasons that aren't clear, the police didn't press the issue. They never informed Mary's school, and they decided there wasn't enough evidence to file charges...
...baby was definitely Vili's. Steve was by then very suspicious of the amount of time his wife and her student were spending together. When he learned that Mary was pregnant and that Vili was the father, Steve was enraged. Gehrke and Huff, who works as both the Fualaaus' lawyer and as Mary's media representative, say Steve ranted about "that n_____ baby" in front of their children. He even confronted his 13-year-old rival, demanding to know if he was having sex with Mary. Vili said...