[ SECRET POST #7077 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #7077 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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02. [SPOILERS for Tiger and Bunny Season 2]




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03. [SPOILERS for Wrestlemania]




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04. [SPOILERS for Invincible (TV show) and maybe comics]




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05. [WARNING for discussion of JKR/transphobia]




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06. [WARNING for discussion of SA, child abuse]
















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Comments

[sabotabby]

Oh hey, I can answer that. Not a lawyer but related to one who does those kinds of cases.

Yes, sometimes they know, and sometimes they don't. Many cases never go to the sorts of adversarial trials that you see on TV; often it's the lawyers bargaining for a plea deal.

In a case where the defence lawyer's job is to get an obviously guilty client off, it's to maintain broader, universal standards of justice, in which we don't send people to prison on vibes. Everyone deserves a fair trial. In more cases than not, though, it's that everyone deserves a chance at being represented fairly at parole, or to not have their rights taken away in prison, or to have a retrial if the first one was mismanaged.

My relative defends some truly heinous people; however, until they are proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, they are entitled to the fairest representation possible and have the same human rights that you or I do, and their job is to ensure that these rights are protected.

Presumably the prosecution also prosecutes some people that they know are innocent, and runs a much higher moral hazard risk by sending someone innocent, or guilty of breaking an unfair law, or who broke a law out of desperate circumstances, to prison. Again, this is the system we have. But it's interesting that we have more shows about heroic cops and prosecutors than we do about heroic defence attorneys.

I'll give you a personal story. When I was 5, a 9-year-old playmate of mine was abducted, raped, and brutally murdered. You can read about it if you want. The cops were sure that they knew who did it, and so everyone else just assumed that this guy was a murderer. The evidence was garbage but vibes, you know? And who wants to defend a child rapist and murderer? So he went to prison.

And. Guess what? He was completely innocent. It was some other guy, who is now dead. The man convicted was exonerated with DNA evidence and they conclusively proved that he had nothing to do with it. Meanwhile he spent nine years of his life that he will never get back in prison, with his reputation tarnished as the worst kind of person imaginable. This is why competent, rational defence lawyers are so important.

[dani_phantasma]

Thank you.

Honestly this is SO important to remind people of. I honestly feel like some people's logic/rationality turns off when they hear about certain crimes. Like I GET the anger. But I've seen emotion based outrage cause people to say the most horrifying things about what SHOULD happen to someone who hasn't even been proven or even someone who had solid evidence proving them innocent but that person didn't think that was good enough.

[(Anonymous)]

In the words of Hunter S. Thompson, "Even a goddamn werewolf is entitled to legal counsel."