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To: TheTimeOfMan

The Assistance of Counsel Clause in the Sixth Amendment is rather clear.


123 posted on 07/22/2017 8:55:00 PM PDT by Timpanagos1
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To: Timpanagos1

LOL it certainly is: You enjoy the right to have the assistance of counsel for defense. Until 1963, however, everyone interpreted that to mean you could do so if you so chose. But even giving that away - I think the idea that lawyers should defend anyone, by any means, destroying any reputation, by manipulating emotion rather than sticking to fact, by lying, by coaching witnesses, etc., is odious. Same goes for DA’s.


138 posted on 07/23/2017 8:17:37 PM PDT by TheTimeOfMan (A time for peace and a time for war)
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