I have only one bone to pick: "getting the best result for their client" or in plain terms, winning at any cost, is not an ethical problem confined to the defense bar.
Let's not pretend that there aren't cops and prosecutors who don't much care whom they convict as long as they get a conviction. To wit, the Rittenhouse and Duke Lacrosse cases and if we took a few minutes I'm sure we could list many more.
After all, AG is often an acronym for Aspiring Governor and DA's office is a grooming stable for wannabe politicians. Kamala Harris not only threw the book at weed buyers, she blocked the release of inmates even after they were shown to be wrongly convicted.
Enjoyable as always. Perhaps, after being cleared, someone in her office asked her whether she felt she had much of a future in a public office in a city that is 25% Jewish? Just asking
My contempt for the bar (of which I am a member) is more ecumenical than Bill's. Justice Alito has written (and per Mr. Demilo below), "Our criminal justice system, however, is not purely adversarial. . . the prosecutor is not supposed to be the representative of an ordinary party to a controversy. The objective of the prosecution in a criminal case is ‘not that the prosecution shall win the case but that justice shall be done’”. For what portion of the contemporary prosecution bar are those words their credo? Few, if any, I would suggest, and for reasons Mr. Demilo identifies – the overwhelming majority of prosecutors (from my perspective as a civil, non-litigation lawyer) are either burnishing their resume for a future run for public office, burnishing their resume to jump to the private sector and at least triple their salary, or are career dead-enders who think they're during the Lord's work. There is nothing more corrosive of our civil society than overzealous, crooked and/or politically motivated prosecutors, the likes of whom have appeared on the front pages most prominently, but scarcely beginning, with the Mueller fiasco, up to and including the Biden family cover-ups and (most if not all of) the prosecutions of Donald Trump. And, to add insult to injury, even when crossing clearly demarcated red lines, prosecutors rarely suffer any adverse consequences. See, for example, United States v. Kevin Clinesmith, where FBI lawyer Clinesmith pleaded guilty to falsifying a document that was the basis of a surveillance warrant against former Trump campaign official Carter Page, yet was quickly reinstated by the D.C. Bar; see also, United States v. Senator Theodore F. Stevens, in which prosecutors were found to have withheld exculpatory evidence for which no sanctions were imposed, but which resulted in Stevens’ wrongful conviction (later vacated) and defeat (to Mark Begich) in 2008, and handed Obama his 60th vote in the Senate (hello Obamacare). These are dirty cops for whom the profession (let alone society at large) should have zero tolerance.
(P.S. We're also paying for the prosecution bar.)
Suggested next installment under the "How Lawyers Are Ruining Our Society" rubric - the plaintiffs’ tort bar.
Let us hope that her collegaues made it clear to her that she would not enjoy working in the office any longer and should probably find employment elsewhere. I would consider bringing a complaint to the Disciplinary Committee. This is not conduct becoming an attorney (I refer to ripping down the posters in particular)
It goes much deeper than that. Check these out.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/bronx-defenders-union-s-inexplicable-siding-with-hamas/ar-AA1jdKLR
https://nypost.com/2023/03/08/bronx-defenders-apologize-settle-antisemitism-claim/
Great find -- thanks!
I have only one bone to pick: "getting the best result for their client" or in plain terms, winning at any cost, is not an ethical problem confined to the defense bar.
Let's not pretend that there aren't cops and prosecutors who don't much care whom they convict as long as they get a conviction. To wit, the Rittenhouse and Duke Lacrosse cases and if we took a few minutes I'm sure we could list many more.
After all, AG is often an acronym for Aspiring Governor and DA's office is a grooming stable for wannabe politicians. Kamala Harris not only threw the book at weed buyers, she blocked the release of inmates even after they were shown to be wrongly convicted.
Bill:
Enjoyable as always. Perhaps, after being cleared, someone in her office asked her whether she felt she had much of a future in a public office in a city that is 25% Jewish? Just asking
She might have higher aspirations. I hear they're hiring at the State Department. Or she can become an aide for Representative Tlaib.
My contempt for the bar (of which I am a member) is more ecumenical than Bill's. Justice Alito has written (and per Mr. Demilo below), "Our criminal justice system, however, is not purely adversarial. . . the prosecutor is not supposed to be the representative of an ordinary party to a controversy. The objective of the prosecution in a criminal case is ‘not that the prosecution shall win the case but that justice shall be done’”. For what portion of the contemporary prosecution bar are those words their credo? Few, if any, I would suggest, and for reasons Mr. Demilo identifies – the overwhelming majority of prosecutors (from my perspective as a civil, non-litigation lawyer) are either burnishing their resume for a future run for public office, burnishing their resume to jump to the private sector and at least triple their salary, or are career dead-enders who think they're during the Lord's work. There is nothing more corrosive of our civil society than overzealous, crooked and/or politically motivated prosecutors, the likes of whom have appeared on the front pages most prominently, but scarcely beginning, with the Mueller fiasco, up to and including the Biden family cover-ups and (most if not all of) the prosecutions of Donald Trump. And, to add insult to injury, even when crossing clearly demarcated red lines, prosecutors rarely suffer any adverse consequences. See, for example, United States v. Kevin Clinesmith, where FBI lawyer Clinesmith pleaded guilty to falsifying a document that was the basis of a surveillance warrant against former Trump campaign official Carter Page, yet was quickly reinstated by the D.C. Bar; see also, United States v. Senator Theodore F. Stevens, in which prosecutors were found to have withheld exculpatory evidence for which no sanctions were imposed, but which resulted in Stevens’ wrongful conviction (later vacated) and defeat (to Mark Begich) in 2008, and handed Obama his 60th vote in the Senate (hello Obamacare). These are dirty cops for whom the profession (let alone society at large) should have zero tolerance.
(P.S. We're also paying for the prosecution bar.)
Suggested next installment under the "How Lawyers Are Ruining Our Society" rubric - the plaintiffs’ tort bar.
Let us hope that her collegaues made it clear to her that she would not enjoy working in the office any longer and should probably find employment elsewhere. I would consider bringing a complaint to the Disciplinary Committee. This is not conduct becoming an attorney (I refer to ripping down the posters in particular)