Re: This whole thing must boggle the mind of Daniel Horowitz


"EnEss" <starword@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "ronniecat" wrote:
>
>> "Pookie" wrote:
>>>A 16 year old and mother arrested for his wife's murder? I mean, if
>>>his
>>>wife wasn't the victim... I am CERTAIN he would be all over this
>>>case
>>>and have oodles of (genuine) sympathy for this character.
>
>> That's a good point. I suggest that we let Dysleski go to kill
>> again and give Horowitz the death penalty instead for having the
>> temerity to defend accused criminals and potentiallyy even feel
>> sorry
>> for them.
>
> This is the thing I keep reading in this NG that utterly astounds
> me. A lot of people here talk as though they think it's an outrage
> that a person accused of a crime have ANY legal defense. I guess
> they think if the police charge a person, he or she should be tossed
> in the slammer then and there and be executed the first available
> moment. Skip the defense and let's just call 'em guilty. They seem
> to hate anyone who would dare put up a defense of any kind for an
> accused murderer or child molester. There are some who have seemed
> to suggest that maybe Horowitz got what's coming to him w/ his
> wife's murder for having the audacity to defend anyone accused of
> murder in the past. I'm really not understanding what's behind this
> kind of thinking.
>
> Just because a criminal defense atty. represents a client doesn't
> mean he's sympathetic to the client or identifies w/ him or her in
> any way. The defense has a job to do, plain and simple, and that job
> is to insure his/her client gets a fair trial and to help that
> person get the best shake possible. Yet there are people here who
> seem apt to condemn any defense atty. just doing the job. I just
> don't get that. Maybe all of you who think that way would prefer to
> go back to the days where people were rounded up off the streets,
> dragged before a judge, testified against by anyone handy and
> prounounced guilty or innocent (usually the former) by the judge and
> sentenced to years of hard labor or hanging, no appeal possible.
>
> I might remind those people that this is what people settling in
> this country fought a bloody revolution to do away w/ and be free
> from in favor of a democratic system of justice that respected and
> upheld individual human rights. But who cares about that, right?
>
> NS
> (add sbc before global to email)
>
>
> Yay White Sox!

Good post.

Chocolic


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