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And Baptiste said: “You are right about the moment and wrong about the statute.
“That law is written for a settled condition and a caretaking relationship.
A stroke, a dementia, a disability, a nursing home.
It is not written for a healthy twenty-year-old who was walking through a door four minutes earlier.
“I have charged it eleven times in nineteen years and every one of them was a person who had been vulnerable for months.
If I charge it on your daughter, I lose a motion in the spring and I lose it badly, and the ruling goes on the books and makes it harder for the next family.”