Crazy story, crazier lawyer
I don't see anything wrong with being a lawyer. In fact, there is much appeal to me in this field. However, I'll leave the political/judicial branch to my more skilled friends (two come to mind).
It just kills me, however, how some lawyers do not seem to have any ethics or morals at all. I was reading the news and came across this horrific story of a disgusting serial murderer. And his defense attorney claims that this man is innocent. How could this attorney live with him/herself? I don't know. Praise God that He is judge and not me.
posted by Ash at 7:20 PM
4 Comments:
I just wrote a long comment and it never posted!
Here's a summary:
The lawyer may simply be representing the charged person. Suppose you're a state appointed defender. You are assigned this guy. He says, "I'm innocent." Do you do your professional duty and represent him?
Why go into an area, even if it's for the state, when you KNOW, going into it, that you could potentially represent somebody like this man?
I don't care. There's no excuse, in my book. I'm just talking from the stand-point of career-decisions. I don't know why a person would intentially put themself into a place where they would represent such atrocity.
Though...I do understand your point. If we are a democratic nation, and say that everyone's "innocent until proven guilty" then we "should" provide for those who can't otherwise afford it themselves, a representative attorney in his/her defense.
I'm simply noting that it is an extreme conflict of morals. I don't know if it's possible to do, if you are a state-appointed defender, but I would refuse his case.
That's my reply. I would refuse the case.
Sorry that your comment didn't post.
I'd represent him if I knew the state attorney had a good case against him.
Actually, I believe (I might be wrong) that by principle if any attorney knows that their client is guilty and continues to plead innocence cannot represent him - it's just a matter of what the attorney believes.
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