[ccmay]

How about that! If you ask a lawyer how he can defend someone like Jeffrey Dahmer or the Rosenbergs, he will go all pious and misty eyed about how everyone's got a right to representation, and how his greatest heroes as a lawyer are the ones who take on the toughest and most unpopular cases. But I guess that all goes out the window when the great god Diversity is angered.

-ccm

[Paloma_55]

The big problem with most lawyers is that they are selfish.

They are concerned with their won/lost record and how that impacts their ability to get cases.

I think the original intent of our system was that guilty parties would be *represented* by legal counsel, but if they were guilty, that counsel would try to ensure they were treated fairly. This has morphed into trying to get them off, no matter what the case, conditions, or danger the defendent poses.

[freespirited]

If you ask a lawyer how he can defend someone like Jeffrey Dahmer or the Rosenbergs, he will go all pious and misty eyed about how everyone's got a right to representation, and how his greatest heroes as a lawyer are the ones who take on the toughest and most unpopular cases. But I guess that all goes out the window when the great god Diversity is angered

That's a great point. I would add that despite their claims to be acting in the interest of minorities, this move shows that these lawyers do not view minorities equally at all. They see the underrepresented minorities as child-like, so fragile that they must be protected from coming into contact with anyone from the law firm that represented the plaintiffs who challenged affirmative action.

How condescending!