30 years ago in Austin, Mark Mueller worked on a case that garnered national media attention. This historic, policy changing case, is a tragic story of assault, appearance bias, wrong doing by the District Attorney and lasting trauma to the defendant.
Listen as Mark recounts how he used public information and education to influence the narrative, and the District Attorney’s Office, to do the right thing and charge the perpetrator for rape in addition to the break in.
As the case went public, there was vigorous debate on whether a condom grants consent, when the defendant is trying to protect herself from further harm.
Through grit and determination, Mark and his client Xan Wilson, who now leads women’s groups that help in assault cases, worked together on this case that changed the way grand juries work with assault cases.
