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"ARBITRARY AND CAPRICIOUS":
"absence of a rational connection between the facts found and the choice made"
A Public Defender Blog
"ARBITRARY AND CAPRICIOUS":
"absence of a rational connection between the facts found and the choice made"
"Everyone, even the guilty criminal--especially the guilty criminal!--needs a companion, a friend, someone to stand with him and for him...
The defense lawyer's job is to force the system to acknowledge that the defendant is not just a social misfit, or a statistic, or a criminal, but a human being with hopes and dreams and fears. A human being who, like any of us, stands in need of repentance and redemption..
The question for the Christian lawyer is not, 'How can you work to get a guilty person off?' The real question is, 'Will you stand by this person, this flawed and sinful human being, and speak a word on his behalf?'
Joseph G. Allegretti,
The Lawyer's Calling
The defense lawyer's job is to force the system to acknowledge that the defendant is not just a social misfit, or a statistic, or a criminal, but a human being with hopes and dreams and fears. A human being who, like any of us, stands in need of repentance and redemption..
The question for the Christian lawyer is not, 'How can you work to get a guilty person off?' The real question is, 'Will you stand by this person, this flawed and sinful human being, and speak a word on his behalf?'
8 Comments:
Hilarious and true! Keep up the good work. I used to be a PD and I know how you feel.
While funny, it stings a bit too. Under-appreciated, vilified and misunderstood - the life of a PD.
~Sarah
That's the best of these I've seen yet!
This is SO true. PD for 26 yrs...
Depicts the trueness of the life of a PD!
Excellent representation of the different perspectives, according to the different interests and how they contribute to stereotyping. A graphic like this could be made for every one mentioned in this one.
It's given me an idea ... (sort of like a circular flow-chart I saw recently that was made into a joke about eating bacon. All answers - whether you chose not eating bacon at the beginnig - led back to eating bacon, nevertheless).
This is quite poignant... Thanks for sharing it.
(Obviously I'm stalking your blogs to get a better idea of who you are and how you think. ;) Not to be creepy, but because finding attorneys in Nebraska who are still in touch with their humanity (in life and at work) seems to be a tough endeavor, and I'm in the business of caring about that for the many clients for whom I advocate - people caught unnecessarily in the devastation that operates within the child welfare and juvenile justice systems.
If you have never visited this group from Chicago, please consider doing it: familydefensecenter.com
We are trying to get a handful of attorneys in Omaha/Lincoln together who can work with the Family Defense Center and other national attorneys to form an effective network of family representation here in Nebraska - similar to what they have accomplished in Chicago.
When you have some time, email me, so we can visit about this idea and the resources available to move it forward: melanie@familyadvocacymovement.com
Perhaps Amy Williams can help facilitate this initial gathering for a task force or the development of an advisory committee. Let me know your thoughts...
Thank you...
absolutely love it!! my pd shoulders and calves are tire as hell, but i still try to push that damn boulder up the mountain...
Superb stuff - shows that lawyers can be creative and funny !
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