Yes Liadan, the mind boggles. I am imagining Larry, Curly and Mo! I am always bamboozled when I think of defence lawyers and how they avoid 'the elephant in the room' ie if the client wants to plead 'not guilty' then the lawyer can't ever ask them if they actually ARE or not, and if the client then tells them that they ARE guilty and they've begun proceedings as 'not guilty', then the lawyer must withdraw from the case (am I making sense? I'm sure someone explained this very very well earlier - probably Hawkins?! - by saying the lawyers first responsibility is to the court, and not the client). How can a lawyer have any sort of an honest, trusting and open relationship with their client, if the client is pretending to be innocent, but it's as clear as *advertiser censored* on a bull that they are NOT. It seems such an ethical dilemma to me....and it must take a very 'special' sort of person to do such a job. What did Chris Nyst's old man Eddie say when Chris said he wanted to do acting, when Dad wanted him to have a 'proper' job? If you want to be an 'actor' then do law because the very best acting is done by lawyers!! (or something to that effect - see Marlywings for appropriate link
- yes I'm only able to produce a 'wink' but not a 'link'!) I understand that everyone deserves a 'defence' regardless of their guilt or innocence, but I couldn't ever find it within myself to be able to 'defend' someone I probably considered was 'guilty'. I could not 'suspend disbelief' as it were. Am I making sense? I do comprehend that the lawyer's job is to 'test evidence' and not make moral judgements, but there seems something very wrong with attempting to 'free' someone you might personally consider IS guilty. Does anyone else feel this way? So we watch with interest how our trio of performers will conduct themselves.....whilst never mentioning the 'G' word. :shush:
PS And the 'elephant in the room' is certainly not ME Gregory....even though you've taken to calling me 'Wobble' rather than 'Wozzle' (*how could Greggles possibly know that I've put on 4kg while sleuthing - and eating too much chocolate? Hmmmmm......*)