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Old 06-04-2008, 02:57 AM   #5
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Originally Posted by TUCKER View Post
Think of Johnny Cochran, F Lee Bailey and the Dream Team. A defense lawyer's job is to mount an often more than adequate defense for his client. His personal feeling supposedly have little to do with it. He might even know the lil sob is guilty, but because of the "attorney client" privilege, he supposedly is still committed to the oath he took to the Bar Association. There are severe penalties for those who knowingly and often unknowingly violate their oath of servitude to a client.
I understand it's his responsibility to defend the defendant, but it just seems like it could be a moral struggle to do so when you know he's guilty. Maybe even enough so to cause you to say something like, "that little nigger deserves the chair". ...you get the point.
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