“unless they waited until about five minutes before she took the stand to meet with her for the very first time”

“It’s important to remember that victims are discouraged from obtaining legal counsel.”

“But seriously, if a witness for the prosecution is never prepped, and as a result are caught totally offguard on the stand and then the prosecutor leaves them out there in no-man’s-land with their ass hanging in the air (i.e., don’t raise any objections, or otherwise try to rehabilitate their testimony on redirect),…

The witnesses had their own counsel. DeCoutere’s lawyer was Gillian Hnatiw, for example.