Once-Prominent Lawyer to Argue Nazi-Posing Teen Lover Controlled Relationship
The former co-chair of the antitrust practice at Gray Plant Mooty in Minnesota, set to go on trial Monday on a charge of criminal sexual conduct with a teen boy, is seeking to introduce photos of the alleged victim dressed as Adolf Hitler.
Aaron Biber, arrested in December, was set to become president of the state bar in two years. Biber’s lawyer, Rachael Goldberger, told a Hennepin County judge the photos are relevant because Biber is Jewish and his alleged 15-year-old victim is not, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports.
Goldberger said the defense will argue that the boy was more controlling than Biber, according to the newspaper account. “He controlled when they got together … when they could talk and who would be in the dominant position” during sexual acts, Goldberger said.
The prosecutor, Assistant Hennepin County Attorney Judy Johnston, has asked the judge to bar the photos from the trial. She said the teen isn’t anti-Semitic and only posed for a photo after Biber victimized him.
