These cases are decided on testimony and on expert psychological and medical evidence, and they move quickly in one direction unless someone intervenes at the beginning. Elena's work concentrates on the earliest stage: securing the account of events while it can still be documented, obtaining the material the investigation has not sought, and putting questions to the experts before the examination rather than disputing it afterwards.
She handles cases where the complainant is a minor, which carry their own procedural rules and their own sentencing consequences, including a parole threshold of four fifths of the sentence.
