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Originally Posted by KenWittlief
rights?! the guy told the police that girls body was wrapped in a chain at the bottom of a cooling tank in a building where he use to work as a security guard - he put it there -the police drained the tank and found her body
what rational person would have any doubt that person was guilty of murdering a 6 year old girl, but the lawyer tries to get the guy OFF?!?!? on a technicality?!
the accused have rights, he was not accused by anyone - he called the police and confessed of his own free will.
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Are there sleazeball lawyers out there? Absolutely. I've never met one, but, then, I don't know many lawyers. I do, however, know lots of engineers, teachers, electricians, and umpires, and I've run across sleazeballs in each of those categories. I figure, since engineers, teachers, electricians, umpires, and lawyers are all
people, there are bound to be some shared characteristics between the groups.
The fact that I've met some sleazeball engineers in my life doesn't mean that they are representative of every engineer.
A lawyer's job is not to tell his "obviously guilty" client to throw himself on the mercy of the court. A lawyer's job is to do what is in the best interest of his client. The system works better if there's someone who knows the rules of the game on both sides. Would a better alternative be to have the judge and the arresting officer get together before each trial and decide who was guilty and who wasn't? Maybe that's how they settle things beyond Thunderdome, but not here in the good old US of A.
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Regardless of all this, whether the lawyer-as-weasel stereotype is a valid one or not, it is still a stereotype. In using it, you lump together every tireless crusader for the rights of the underdog with the slick, money-grubbing sleazeballs who earned the stereotype in the first place, and that's not right.