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Originally Posted by likwid
Every rape case that involved a child with a defense attorney who knows his job that the death penalty was on the table.
This isn't some unique to only Massachusetts thing where lawyers are allowed assault the victim.
A defense attorney's job is to defend his client he/she doesn't care if he's guilty or innocent.
I really DO wonder sometimes if this is such an evil heathen state why do you all even live here? Its not like we live in some communist country where you have to ask for the state's permission to leave. Its not like this state will ever vote right, nor will gun ownership get more lax, and animals will be protected in national parks before you are.
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Ok, but what about this. If you were on a jury, and the defense lays into an eight year old child on the witness stand during cross, how do you think that jury would view the defense team? Like a bunch of thugs?
If a defense attorney were to verbally barrage a child like that in front of a jury or any normal human being, he/she will have lost the jury, don't you think...?
And as far as Massachusetts goes, I would love to try living elsewhere, but, I'm 14 years into a career that requires me to work 32, so.... I've made my bed, have to lie in it. I might be wrong, and I'm sure you'll let me know if I am, but wasn't this state losing population as of the most recent census?