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Re: Carol, what did you used to do for a living?
Posted by OMG on 3/13/06

    Carol,

    Are you serious about your last stament?

    *I would rather put a guilty person back on the
    street than deprive an innocent one of his freedom and possibly life*

    So the guilty person can go back and commit more crimes against innocent children?

    No wonder the world is the way it is!

    Truly amazing

    OMG

    On 3/13/06, Carol wrote:
    > On 3/10/06, Mr. Blue wrote:
    >> On 3/10/06, The Zephyr wrote:
    >>> She asks me all the time how I
    >>> can defend people like that. I tell her the old addage about everybody is entitled to a
    >>> zealous defense; she thinks they're entitled to be taken out back and shot:-)
    >>
    >> How do you deal with defending child molesters and the like? My fiance has jokingly said
    > that
    >> she'd leave me if I did that.
    > It's my job. Same as caring for child abusers in the hospital. What I do is look at it this
    > way: I am defending the person not the action. As a mother it sometimes makes my job very
    > difficult. But we all know, we don't have to like our clients. And sometimes, they're
    > innocent. Or the police have violated their rights, etc. Yes, I know what people say, "so
    > what? After what he did to that kid he's not entitled to rights anyway. What about the
    > rights of the victim?" And I can't say none of those things cross my mind once in awhile.
    > But next time it might be my son or my brother, or myself whose rights are violated. And when
    > I was a clerk, we had a case where I am sure that the injury to the child was a birth injury,
    > not shaken baby. Unfortunately there was no money for expert witnesses to read the MRIs etc.
    > so he ended up pleading to a lesser. That has stayed with me. Sometimes, not real often, but
    > sometimes, they are innocent. My study partner in law school was involved with the Innocence
    > Project. Their client spent 7 years in prison for rape of a young girl, then was exhonerated
    > with DNA. Sometimes, they are innocent. I would rather put a guilty person back on the
    > street than deprive an innocent one of his freedom and possibly life.

     
     

 
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