Barry Barnett
Joined: 06 May 2008 08:42 am
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Posted: 06 May 2008 09:37 am
Post Subject: Re: its their job
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Our founding fathers who wrote the Constitution of the United States took everything into consideration when they paved the way for the judicial process in this country.
Everybody has rights regardless of what crime you commit. These are the Miranda rights. The judicial system is an adversarial system and the lawyers on both sides of the aisle are charged with upholding the highest standards of the judicial process.
Everybody has the right to counsel and it is the responsibility of the defense attorney to challenge each piece of evidence against their client and force the prosecution to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that their client is guilty of the charges against them.
While it is true that 98% of the people brought to trial are guilty of the charges against them, there is still that 2% that are not guilty. Technology and Science has gotten better at reducing that 2% to 0. You can not blame the defense attorney for defending their client. If they do not vigorously defend their client, the client can appeal on the grounds that they were not represented adequatly and the court can order a mistrial and then we do the thing all over again. So don't blame the defense attorneys for doing their job. I would rather see a guilty man walk free than see an innocent man sent to jail for a crime he did not commit.
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