Posted by
JP on Wednesday, June 18, 2008 10:07:50 AM
by Burt
Prelutsky [scriptwriter]
I often
find myself wondering how seemingly normal people ever wind up being
criminal defense attorneys. When even Harvard law professor and
one-time member of O.J. Simpson’s so-called dream team Alan Dershowitz
claims that over 90% of all criminal defendants are guilty, why would
any sane person want to devote his life to trying to spring hundreds,
maybe even thousands, of felons?
I
realize that our legal system insists that every murderer, rapist,
pedophile and kidnapper, is entitled to the very best defense his
lawyer can provide, but what sort of human being wakes up in the
morning and, even before brushing his fangs, is busy thinking up ways
to aid and abet those monsters? And just how is he morally superior to
the goon who drives the getaway car? [more]