Okay, we've managed to establish that none of us has any respect for the defense team's morals. JB is most likely a horny, egotistical, fame-crazed fool. LBK and HL have blotches on their reputations involving possible evidence tampering and suspected violations of privilege. TM is in some kind of legal halfway house status in CA for funky financial dealings. Lyons made an unfortunate choice to protect someone's client from the DP by keeping quiet about the fact she knew another man was innocent of the crime, although it would have served her conscience and perhaps not the innocent.
I agree with you wholeheartedly on the above appraisal
It makes us feel better to assume we are morally superior, I understand.
Love your posts, dear cecybeans, but I (singular) must assume that you are speaking only for yourself and?? _________. Please fill in the blank, coz I don't want to
presume that you would show moral superiority by speaking for all the rest of us writing on this thread.
(Although in this case Id rather admire the defense team at some point because Im worried their shortcomings may be grounds for appeal)
I
wanted to admire the newest addition to the team, Professor AL, because I don't admire JB; wanted to admire TM because he's from my State, but am still
on hold for findings to be published by local Bar; want to admire LKB because of her fine reputation, but now must find out more info from you about the
evidence tampering controversy. Please clarify. Thanks.
I personally feel much better when I'm "high" on my idealization of a public figure because I sure don't like the crash that comes with disillusionment.
I was an obsessed viewer of the OJ trial, still have every tape of every tiny little court proceeding from the old Court T.V., and throughout it all though
I didn't agree with the Jury's verdict, I never lost my idealization and respect for Johnnie Cochran. I also admired the lawyering of F. Lee Bailey, though
there may have been issues which I questioned. I did believe that OJ had a "dream" of a defense team. By contrast, I thought the Prosecution
appeared inept and ill-prepared. I then read every book that came out by all of the major and minor players who were writing back then.
After all of that, I get to have a citizen's opinion without reading Cicero or being pushed into the morally-superior corner wearing a dunce hat.
. . . But also look at history; some of the morals we take for granted today have undergone dramatic evolution.
I considered the above in reviewing the credentials of Professor AL, recalling the time-frame when she must have been in college and law school, and
the
zeitgeist or cultural disposition back then. I recalled a male friend who came out of law school looking like Thomas Jefferson complete with long pony-tail
and went the defense route. I understand the shaping of a career professional; I, too, was once "shaped."
And, yes, I have appreciation for the progress of history which shifts our perceptions of good/evil and right/wrong, though I believe that there are certain
immutable values. Call me morally superior if you must. But to those who know me, I'm one who searches for "truth," then calls it as she sees it.
Sometimes I see it wrongly.
Context and relativity are crucial in the case of the deceased child, Caylee Anthony, where truth was lost from the get-go. Most of the people following
this case have been literally driven bezerk by news of the massive deception perpetrated by this defendant/mother--and sometimes by some of her
family, it appears--on the very law enforcement agents whom they turned to for help. I've yet to hear even so much as an "I'm sorry" uttered for any
one of the lies by the responsible parties. And why should any citizen even deign to care about such nonsense? Why, indeed? Who has been asked to
foot the bill for all of the resources, personnel, and hours upon hours of investigations, court time, etc. etc.? WE, the people, must pay!
When I hear of another case where there was a parallel massive deception--this time perpetrated by lawyers on behalf of a defendant--I tend to get fearful
with a gut-wrenching disgust which you may call "moral superiority," but which I call my honest, human, gut-level truth. As a citizen, I get to react
rather than simply digest the notion that the Law knows of no other path [than withholding the truth]. That is just too dismal and way too disillusioning
for me to bear!
Finally, about the truthful plight of the pitiful lost child, I am hopeful that someone in this case is bold enough to display moral superiority on her behalf.
