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This Doesn't Happen to People Like Me
4. A Fragile Justice
Your Honor, one thing that I often do, particularly in cases like this, is... I try to imagine my client's baby photo or a preschool photo or some sort of a photo from my client's early years because certainly the life that my client has now is not the life that my client has always had. Did my client in those tender years feel safe? Was there trauma in my client's life?
This Doesn't Happen to People Like Me
4. A Fragile Justice
What circumstances in my client's young years came to influence my client today? And the truth is that we actually have almost no information about Bradley's early years.
This Doesn't Happen to People Like Me
4. A Fragile Justice
The siblings that Mr. Yon has, he has eight biological siblings. He has five step siblings. None of those siblings sent in a letter describing anything about Mr. Yon's early life or anything about Mr. Yon, period. And this is the information that we have. We do know that Bradley's mother raised him. His father wasn't really around. And when he was 16 years old, his mother passed away.
This Doesn't Happen to People Like Me
4. A Fragile Justice
It was as a result of that, his siblings ended up splitting up.