Credit to this community newspaper for providing a worthwhile think piece opinion column that didn't simply espouse partisan talking points. Show this longtime local outlet some love and check this worthwhile note:
The presumption of innocence is paramount
Over the 34 years I have been practicing law, my practice has changed and evolved a great deal.In my younger years, most all my work was in litigation, mostly civil, but some criminal too.Early on, my law school roommate, who clerked for a federal judge, got my name placed on the list of appointed counsel for federal criminal defendants, and I got my feet wet by defending indigent criminal defendants in the federal system.In the two law firms I worked for, in my first nine years of
Who is this guy? If his name is somewhere in the article, I missed it.
ReplyDelete^^^^The man's name is at the bottom of the article.
ReplyDeleteThere has never been an assumption of innocence.
ReplyDeleteThat is a dangerous myth.
"The judge said, 'Son, what is your alibi. If you were somewhere else, than you won't have to die.'"
A very old song, & it's still true.
And the judge pointed to Byron and says to a young man, "That isn't how you want to go through life acting and behaving like."
ReplyDeleteI hear that sheep are liars.
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