Washington Post: Lawyer leads charge against sexual assault in military
The Washington Post reports:
But Burke, who arrives in court with damp hair and her arm around her client, does manage to communicate all the same, exhaling loudly and throwing her hands in the air by way of exhorting prosecutors to get in there and object. During the break after her client was asked on the stand whether she wore underwear to the April 2012 party where she was allegedly violated, Burke stage-whispers to the military attorneys, “This is harassment, and it has to stop!”
Burke has just in the past two years taken on an all-too-booming pro-bono practice representing those who’ve reported being sexually assaulted while serving in the U.S. military. “Once I showed the least interest” in such cases, she said, “I was inundated.’’
