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In reply to the discussion: Eight myths about Assange [View all]HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)actually "the women's lawyer."
The following is an excerpt from Hannes Råstam's coming book 'Thomas Quick: Creating a Serial Killer'. The book is due out this spring. Much of the book will focus on the part Claes Borgström played in this the biggest judicial scandal ever in Sweden save for the current case of Julian Assange. Borgström did virtually nothing for six years, let his client be convicted of murder on no evidence whatsoever in four cases, and ended up billing the government for over one half million dollars (SEK 5 million).
http://rixstep.com/2/1/20120206,00.shtml
Thomas Quick is actually Sture Ragnar Bergwall. His name was changed in 2002 after a series of trials over an eight year period (1994 - 2001) involving Claes Borgström.
The trials involved eight (8) murders Quick confessed to. The verdicts in the trials have since been overturned as there was no evidence whatsoever and the only witness was Quick himself.
Quick has a history of mental illness and has repeatedly been hospitalised in mental institutions. He was called 'The Säter Man' in the media, a reference to the Säter hospital that had taken care of him.
Quick withdrew his previous testimony in a documentary sent in Swedish national television in December 2008. Prosector Eva Finné was called in to review the case. Finné threw out the verdict and things started unraveling for certain individuals...
Claes Borgström did not want to respond to the criticism directed at him for his representation of Thomas Quick but he'll get another chance. And how will the Swedish bar association rule that a defence solicitor should behave when a mentally ill client wants to confess to crimes he's not committed?
http://rixstep.com/2/1/20101122,02.shtml