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Myrina

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50. I used to ask my Law Professor that ...

Thu Jul 11, 2013, 09:22 AM

Jul 2013

... How can one be a defense attorney if/when you know your client is a scumbag, or - often in the case of public defenders - you're not trying to prove his innocence but just help him cop a lighterr sentence (I've seen it with 'the usual suspects' in the office I was interning at: revolving door, just tack on some time without a vigorous defense, simply to get the thing closed).

Conversely, how can you be a Prosecutor when you know some of the laws you're prosecuting people for are unjust bullshit?

And that is why I never finished law school.

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