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To: Alberta's Child
If I felt a need to hire a former Federal prosecutor as my attorney, I'd have to be in some serious legal jeopardy myself.

Not really. The best law firms hire former federal prosecutors as their criminal defense lawyers. It's actually really hard to have credibility in criminal defense at those levels without having worked as a prosecutor because of both street cred and because former prosecutors have an automatic leg up over non-prosecutors in dealing with the current prosecutors. So if someone is footing your legal bills, your criminal defense lawyer will likely be a former prosecutor of some stripe. I don't really see anything odd about this that we could read into.

71 posted on 09/23/2018 7:52:57 AM PDT by FateAmenableToChange
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To: FateAmenableToChange
I understand. I should have been more clear about this:

The best law firms hire former federal prosecutors as their criminal defense lawyers. It's actually really hard to have credibility in criminal defense at those levels without having worked as a prosecutor because of both street cred and because former prosecutors have an automatic leg up over non-prosecutors in dealing with the current prosecutors. So if someone is footing your legal bills, your criminal defense lawyer will likely be a former prosecutor of some stripe. I don't really see anything odd about this that we could read into.

What I'm reading into this is that Bromwich is being brought on board to deal with matters of CRIMINAL LAW.

Ford isn't a defendant. She's not even dealing with prosecutors now (OR MAYBE SHE IS). She's a prospective witness in a Senate confirmation process.

I didn't have a criminal lawyer in any of my dealings as a WITNESS. LOL.

81 posted on 09/23/2018 8:02:00 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("The Russians escaped while we weren't watching them ... like Russians will)
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