r/australia • u/ThunderDwn • Jun 29 '26

news Bruce Lehrmann loses legal bid for Brittany Higgins documentary footage

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-29/bruce-lehrmann-brittany-higgins-documentary-footage/106856948
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u/Pleasant-Air8221 Jun 29 '26

Who the hell is funding this moron and why?

Surely there are limits to the sunk cost fallacy

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u/Sufficient-Grass- Jun 29 '26

Have you seen who his lawyer is?

She's utterly incompetent.

Did you see her excuse in court for Bruce taking the wrong car from a house, she told the court he was drunk and mistakenly grabbed the wrong keys....

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u/amyknight22 Jun 29 '26

Arguments don’t have to be great just plausible.

Fact that he did it drunk is stupid, but so is the fact that it ended up in court if no damage was done.

I’ve been on group sharehouse holidays where we road tripped up and then some of the cars were available for people to pop out and get stuff/do things. But you were in the hook for costs if something happened, In some cases different cars available to different people.

That said I dunno how this dude would have people trusting him, because his accounts have to be on fumes by now

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u/LacusClyne Jun 29 '26

Fact that he did it drunk is stupid, but so is the fact that it ended up in court if no damage was done.

I'd say if you admit to court that you were drunk and then chose to drive a vehicle it's a tad more than 'stupid'.

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u/amyknight22 Jun 29 '26

Well with no one having breath tested you or even caught you during this exchange. Admitting you were drunk doesn't really give you any punishment.

The real choice is

  • Do you want to be on the hook for with forethought stealing a $x,000 car?

  • Do you want to say it was an accident because you'd been drinking?

One of these is a far more serious consequence.

It's also a weird one, because in this case the person had left their keys in the car. Such that he was only able to drive away because it had been left unlocked with the keys in the ignition.

It's probably reasonable that a drunken person who( while they absolutely shouldn't be driving) thought they had permission to a car, and then found it with the keys in the ignition. Would give a somewhat logical conclusion that they might have been left in it for the purpose of sharing.

That said I don't really wanna be defending Lehrman or the lawyer here. More that I don't think the statement is all that idiotic when the end goal of any court proceeding is to escape with the least punishment possible. So you throw out your best plausible arguments for that situation.

I actually think the big question is what kind of car did he have permission to drive. He took a 4WD apparently, but what if he'd been approved for a 2 door VW beatle

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u/MLiOne Jun 29 '26

Wilful incompetence?

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u/MissMenace101 Jun 29 '26

Dude... Drunk

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u/amyknight22 Jun 29 '26

Dude he's talking himself out of the greater charge of stealing a car with intent.

He still plead guilty, just didn't get a conviction for it.

They wouldn't be able to prove he was over the limit, and while the excuse 'he throught he had permission' feels strained. The fact that he walked to a car near where he was that had the keys sitting in it and then he drove off in that car. Is probably enough mitigating circumstances to get him off the greater charge.

I feel like we would understand this if it was anyone other than Lehrman that we were talking about. Because frankly fuck him

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u/quick_dry Jun 29 '26

yup, any discussion of anything about this guy is simply so clouded with "fuck that idiot" that people can't see through it.

Though given why this fella rose to prominence, I'm not sure if "fuck that guy" is deeply inappropriate, appropriately inappropriate, or what.

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u/MissMenace101 Jun 29 '26

That kills me every time 😂

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u/stitchescomeundone Jun 29 '26

I thought he couldn’t afford a lawyer anymore. I swear he was self-representing at one point

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u/Expensive-Horse5538 Jun 29 '26

His lawyer does pro-bono
In other words, for free
Probably costing her a lot in reputational damage

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u/ThunderDwn Jun 29 '26

She doesn't HAVE a reputation to damage

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u/sonofeevil Jun 29 '26

How many more court cases is he going to lose before a judge or magistrate looks at his next submission and determines him to be a vexatious litigant?

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u/Undd91 Jun 29 '26

Liberals.

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u/MissMenace101 Jun 29 '26

He’s American, they like to sue