Re: Carol, what did you used to do for a living?

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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.