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aefallen

Law Talk: Defending Guilty People Isn't Easy

Jul 12, 2007 00:21

Law Talk
In summary: Defending Guilty People Isn't Easy, or, Why Life Is Not Like Phoenix Wright;
and ( A Funny Thing I Found in Spam )

law, ffxii, the legal profession, arashi

Comments 18

inspired_idiot July 11 2007, 16:50:55 UTC

Yes, the "you defend guilty people" or "let guilty people go scot free" is the most often heard excuse given in scorn heaped upon the legal profession ( ... )

aefallen July 11 2007, 17:43:31 UTC

*hugs you so tightly!* Thank you so much for understanding - I can't help but think sometimes that maybe only fellow law students/pupils/trainee lawyers can genuinely understand and empathise with the predicament.

I mean, I totally understand why we get a bad rep, and I know that the profession has its fair share of unscrupulous individuals, but the kind of attitude people give the legal profession sometimes completely misses out on the good work that the profession does and can do. A lot of people have this misguided conception of what lawyers can do and do do, and I suspect a fair number of them get their ideas from the media. Or only remember the cases when really bad lawyering turns up. (And of course mostly the bad lawyers end up in the papers so people can remember them better)

That's true! It's so hard to judge who is the "innocent" party, especially when naturally both sides present the most convincing arguments for their case. And sometimes neither party is innocent. I really do wish that there was a universal truth- ( ... )

farfello July 11 2007, 17:26:18 UTC

(Amazingly, the only two ffxii icons I have are this and another one with an angry Ashe going "I'll kill him dead", so you get this one, irrelevant as it is. xD) It's out of the ffxii vol.1 manga you gave me! ♥! I had to stop and !squee when I saw that you had an "arashi" tag and a "ffxii" tag in the same post. xDDDD

I agree about the Fran! O________o;; She did a bloody fantastic job with the hair *continues staring* And the Basch has veeeeeery prettie muscles :9 The Balthier I'm less fond of, mostly because the game version has kind of reached some Celestial Plane of Manliness for me. Don't you dare laugh.

My dear, it's now EXTREMELY obvious that you like Matsumoto Jun's looks, because he's in 6 of your 9 bases. xD All the icons with only one person in them are MatsuJun icons (you probably know that >D), the "Crazy" one is Aiba/Jun and the "bridges" one is Sho/Aiba (That one you should know too. It's the file name! :p)

aefallen July 11 2007, 17:36:42 UTC

omg I am meant to be working on my advocacy preparation due in... 7 hours, but I saw you commented and SO I HAD TO COMMENT TO YOU ( ... )

anonymous July 11 2007, 17:45:36 UTC

Firstly, your layout amuses me XD!

Secondly, on the defending guilty people: When I was taking Crim Justice Studies last year, I felt like I learned alot about why it is so important that even the guilty have proper legal representation, because to deny them of that would be a far worse thing than them getting off IMO.

People tend to freak out when they hear that 'guilty' people are released, but they fail to recognize many times that there are often reasons for that. Things like botched investigations, false testimony, forced confessions, poor handling of evidence, insufficient evidence, ect.

The public doesn't want to hear that though. They want 'bad people' put away forever, but if they were in the position of being wrongly accused, they'd be damn glad those technicalities exist. >.>!

deewhydeeax July 11 2007, 18:11:13 UTC

Oh, Arashi <3 I can't pick anyone out of an Arashi lineup save for Matsujun and maybe Aiba, but they're just so sparkly and pretty.

I like lawyers :D And I'm pretty much just repeating what everyone else has said, but a lot of time guilt and innocence aren't so clear-cut and there's always more than one side to every story, and I believe every defendant has the right, with the help of a lawyer, to give his/her account of things, and... basically, I just like lawyers.

joey_fraser July 11 2007, 21:07:52 UTC

Wow, you study LAW?! *amazed* You must be ridiculously smart. But um, I've never thought about lawyers that way--I'm pretty much neutral with them, and just admire them from afar for being so smart and such great heroes of justice. : D So this article was an eye-opener~thank you-!

Oh, Arashi. I've heard of that band several times, but have never listened to any of their songs--perhaps I should.

And yeah, those cosplay pictures were really good--Balthier was really awesome! The Fran one was good, too, I thought that her costume was really well done. xD