Taunton Rep outrage

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Originally Posted by FishermanTim

This is what was so uspetting to hear.

I completely agree 100%
But thats exactly what they do.

If you were a defense lawyer tearing into a 5 or 6 year old with this kind of mindset, you would have lost the jury and your case before you finished.

But a good defense lawyer is gonna do the above, and make the point that kids lie, kids are scared and say whoever, and keep thrashing away at this point trying to get the kid to say something else, then the jury is split and you have a mistrial. Defense attorney gets paid.

The defense legal system doesn't really care if their client is innocent or guilty, but whether they can sway the jury in their favor, even at the expense of a young child's life.

One in a million its the wrong person and that defense attorney just saved someone's life. It really does go both ways.

Now this rep is saying, in essence, that he's willing to destroy a child's life to defend someone who's already destroyed their innocense. ruined?

As a defense attorney? Yes.
Its the death penalty.
Not life in prison w/o parole.
Death, the end, its all over. The kid gets therapy and it hopefully works, the other guy? A pine box.
At that point, you want the meanest most ruthless defense attorney you can find.

Its how the system works.

I can't tell if you're angry at both the ruling and the Rep or angry that the rep was willing to explain what a defense attorney will do to the victim in a death penalty case?