[Vision2020] Lawyers' duty

[Sunil Ramalingam]

Donovan,

I hope I can say this without the usual disintegration that often follows my attempts to communicate with you.

Of course defense lawyers want to win when they go to trial.  That's our job.  Our only job is to represent the client regardless of our views of his or her guilt or innocence.  We are to represent them within the bounds of our ethical obligations and all applicable rules.  I have not yet had a client who wanted me to to lose the case for his or her benefit.

As to moral corruption, I'm not sure what you mean.  I would be corrupt if I did not try to win for my client.

I don't know why you think this is something new.  Can you point to something in our legal history that suggests lawyers did not owe their sole duty to their clients in the past?

Sunil

Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 21:06:07 -0700
From: donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com
To: lfalen at turbonet.com; ophite at gmail.com
CC: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Bill Ayers & Barack Obama

Andreas,
 
Good people work to find the truth and to bring justice. Our legal system doesn't do that much of the time. Often because we have bad lawyers that want to "WIN" more than they want to do what is right for the community and their client. 
 
People are entitled to fair and appropriate counsel. They should not be allowed to harm others and their community because they can buy lawyers with no morals only interested in winning at any cost to get them off from a crime. 
 
A lawyer that punishes someone beyond their crime is doing society harm. A lawyers that gets a criminal off scott free from a crime is doing harm to their client and to the community. They do because they want to win, not because of any other reason. 
 
The idea of  "the right to fair defense" should not, not has it ever until recently, meant, a right to put yourself above the law if you can afford a morally corrupted lawyer.
 
Best Regards,
 
Donovan
 


--- On Fri, 9/19/08, Andreas Schou <ophite at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Andreas Schou <ophite at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Bill Ayers & Barack Obama
To: "lfalen" <lfalen at turbonet.com>
Cc: donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com, "Chuck Kovis" <ckovis at turbonet.com>, "vision2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>, "g. crabtree" <jampot at roadrunner.com>
Date: Friday, September 19, 2008, 10:44 AM

>> A good lawyer should be one that brings justice to society, not one who
can free criminals to victimize others again with impunity.

"A good lawyer works for the prosecution, not for the defense," is
what you mean, right? Because no one would ever defend an accused
criminal other than scum?

-- ACS





      
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