Activists for women's rights had feared he would be acquitted, since his parents had absolved him of blame, a factor Pakistani courts often take into account.
The risk with any joint defense is that one defendant may be more culpable than another and the less culpable defendant could suffer as a result of a strategy designed to protect that individual, says Leonard.
As you must be aware, given that our father escorted him to court, Potter had a disciplinary hearing this summer in front of the whole Wizengamot and he did not come out of it looking too good.
" It may not show it now with only two years of records, but I am trying, and all I want is for the people I hurt to have a final sense of culpability that justice has somehow been served."
" It's a lot to put on one person. I feel like the guilt should be on them and should not be held over us. They should be feeling this [pain], not me."
Prosecutors have charged 270 demonstrators with murder under the common purpose doctrine, an apartheid era law used in crowd situations when there is uncertainty about blame.