(12-01-2020, 04:36 AM)LP date Wrote:Are these two points consistent?I see the Police and Lawyers as Yin and Yang, one cannot function without the other and therefore it is ridiculous to expect zero overlap. So there is irony when each portrays the other as a mortal enemy!
There must be many scenarios where a lawyer knows an innocent person has been jailed wrongly because one of their clients is guilty of that very crime!
(12-01-2020, 03:36 AM)Thryleon date Wrote:That being said, if Lawyers know that their clients are guilty, they are supposed to drop those cases else they become accomplices.Does it function that way though?
Could you argue that a lawyer dropping a case is a tell, a defacto concession of client guilt!
[member=105]Thryleon[/member] What is "Good" as in "Good vs Bad" Is bad the police leveraging a greedy and narcissistic lawyer to put a career "child killing drug peddler" off the streets? Some will no doubt claim the high ground, and advise us to turn the other cheek. Tell that to the parents who have watched a child die from a drug overdose!
Lawyers and socialists will argue against those actions and infer an anarchy of no limits is the ultimate destination, but I seriously doubt our democracy crumbles when a bad lawyer goes bad and the police leverage that event!
Removing access to lawyers by instilling paranoia might be the best thing to happen to the crooks, from a public perspective!
Maybe the public anger needs to be directed at those who award the appeals? A mighty deep and dark pit!
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"