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Originally Posted by ogallalabob
Your changing the goal posts. You really do not think it is immoral to represent a person charged with sexual crimes. Your fine with a person becoming a public defender doing so knowing they will be handling these types of cases. So it is not the actual work you find immoral. I assume in the above your not ok with any lawyer no matter what he makes F*** over some poor guy who had waste dumped on his land.
It just seems your upset with how much a good defense attorney makes in a high profile case.
Nah I've said the same thing since the beginning. It helps to back up and connect it to the original story
The whole thing caught fire because it was supposed to be an example of the 'intolerant left' on Ivy League campuses. The supposed intolerance coming from a person who's just doing their civic duty having their livelihood threatened because of who they're defending.
It turned out that the second part wasn't true. The guy was just losing a ornamental post that he was apparently not doing very good at.
What I've been saying is that the first part isn't quite true either. Defense attorneys as a whole group don't get a pass for any activity they do as a defense attorney. When it comes to these Ivy League guys it's far less "I'll take a hit defending this guy as my civic duty" and a lot more about money and prestige. Which is fine, but then you have to accept the consequences of going after money and prestige. You can't run back and say "I'm just fulfilling my civic duty, I'm blameless"
I'm only making this point as a generality against the defense that a lot of elite corporate etc defense lawyers make. If this guy wins his suit against Harvard and gets his job back then good for him, if he loses it and doesn't get his position, oh well. He's not really that much worse off and Harvard isn't that much better off either way. It doesn't much matter.
Last edited by Huehuecoyotl; 06-20-2019 at 03:14 PM.