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Hypothetical No More

Somewhere shortly after, "How do you defend someone if you know that he's guilty?" the conversation with curious friends and strangers sometimes proceeds to, "What if you defended someone, and he got off, and then he killed someone or something?  Wouldn't you feel responsible?"Well, there's no more need to hypothesize.  It has happened to me, to a small extent at least, and now I can tell you how I feel.First, the background.  I represented this client a few years ago.  I represented him on something where he wasn't really facing jail time.  It was more like a probation or parole hearing - if we lost, the terms of his parole would have been stricter, and if we won, the terms would have been more lenient.The client had a very bad criminal record...continue to full post

Full post as published by Blonde Justice on February 12, 2010 (boomark / email).