“by heart!” - Then clearly you would not be Labrie, my dear.
I am heading to a prep school and I just arrived at this 102-page thread. Please give me a short summary of this whole issue and any website that involves with it.
@Muselk Google, is your friend. The link in the first post of the thread will give you the name of the convicted sex offender and the school. Enter those two things into Google and you will get all the info you need.
Learning to do your own research and skimming for content will come in very handy at prep school, @Muselk. 
Labrie files a motion for a new trial citing ineffective counsel. I feel so sorry for this young women. She has the right to move on with her life.
Ineffective counsel??? Are you kidding me???
This kid is a complete narcissist. I guess in his genius mind, ineffective means “not effective enough to convince me I’m an idiot for not accepting a plea deal.”
I’m reading it as a desperate measure from a desperate person. Wonder where all the $ for legal counsel is coming from.
I agree with @MaterS in feeling sorry for the victim and her family.
Perhaps some of the parents of his SPS friends might still be bankrolling it? I agree it’s mysterious, unless the new lawyer is doing it for a reduced fee because of the publicity she knows it will garner. That new lawyer (can’t recall her name) definitely threw Carney under the bus during the bail revocation hearing - she brought up the fact that Carney’s office was supposed to inform the VT bail supervision folks that Labrie had a couple of meetings with them outside of curfew in the fall, and did not.
I’m no legal beagle but I wasn’t too impressed with Carney’s work although that’s different than being legally ineffective. However, as the old saying goes “You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.” There was some damaging concrete evidence and testimony IMO.
According to the news article, the claim is based on counsel’s failure to try to get the computer charge dismissed…that’s the only felony charge Labrie was convicted of.
How many lawyers did Labrie fire before hiring Carney?
2 maybe 3. The third seemed to have some conflict of interest.
“I can’t imagine his present attorney was thrilled with the position she was put in in the courtroom. Or is that par for the course as a defense attorney, all that creative spin?”
Your client doing stupid stuff and sabotaging the case is par for the course as a defense attorney. (It’s not unusual in civil matters, either, especially if you do free legal services.) A defendant firing one lawyer after another is not par for the course. It happens, but it’s not the norm.
Wait, isn’t he already filing an appeal? Can you appeal and ask for a retrial at the same time?
The decisions that this boy has made relative to this whole affair are mystifying. From declining the original plea deal, to the ever changing counsel to the mess he is in now - all missteps to me. I do wonder who is guiding or advising him. Is it both parents or is one influencing these decisions?
Put yourself in the shoes of the parent that he is living with. If there was even a minuscule chance that my son was violating the terms of his bail by going to Boston, there isn’t a chance in hell I would let him out of the house or fund the trip. I would have permission for those trips nailed down before they were even complete thoughts in his head.
This boy has shown that he needs help with decision-making. Where are the parents here? He needs assistance.
“He needs assistance.”
My first hire would be a psychiatrist.
But at this point I am thinking for the whole family! No one is making rational decisions here.
I think he is asking for problems in retrying the case. A new jury could just as easily decide he did rape her and he would end up with more jail time than he already has.
I hope everyone realizes that if the encounter had taken place in Labrie’s home state of Vermont OR the girl’s home state of Connecticut, there would not be a crime. New Hampshire’s law is slightly different,. Because she was under the age of 16 and there was penetration, the jury had no choice but to find him guilty. The jury believed the sex was consensual, but due to her age and the fact that they were in NH, he had to be found guilty of certain counts. Had the exact same activities taken place in VT or CT–no crime. His attitude, appearance, and the fact that he was popular and made sexual comments about this girl and others to his friends has no bearing on the verdict. This thread often discusses his personality. It has absolutely nothing to do with the case. This girl willingly engaged in the sexual encounter. I don’t know how close she was to age 16, but it could even have been a matter of days. The fact that he was at an elite prep has nothing to do with the case. They could have been public school kids in the backseat of his mothers prius and the verdict would have been the same. The sex was consensual. She knew exactly what the Senior Salute was. She went willingly but regretted it the next day. I hope everyone realizes that he was found not guilty of aggravated sexual assault. He was found guilty of misdemeanor sexual assault due to her age and the fact that there was penetration. .
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. The fact is he broke the law.