Refusing to sit with your client, who is going to die in prison (rightfully), over a peice of paper?
I get that he is evil, but some posts here are a little too "and anyone who dare breathed the same air as him is worthless"
Because most people casually followed this case, they aren't online for ages analyzing every picture from that courtroom. I doubt a defense attorney part of a very high profile case has any job worries ahead of her.
I’m with you in that so many here think a defense attorney representing a murderer is allowed to treat their client like they are less than human, an animal. They are not. It takes special kind of person to deal with people who are up for such serious charges. Kudos to AT for doing it, someone has to as everyone deserves to be treated like a human and given fair due process.
Treating your client like a human, no matter what they have done, is expected. It isn’t disgusting, inhumane, or inappropriate- it is professional. Her doing her job has zero to do with her feelings for him, if she likes him or not. It is her job and from what I can tell she has done it well.
Some people don’t seem to get it.. if a defense attorney does not develop some kind of relationship with their client, gain some level of trust, and behave in a professional manner- they aren’t doing their job. He wouldn’t have been given effective council, not given due process- and he could be bounced from one attorney to another. Or if it had gone to trial he could have gotten a mistrial and drag it all out because there was evidence of ineffective counsel.
That didn’t happen- thanks to AT doing her job.
If this would have gone to trial I would have expected her to defend BK to the best of her ability, as that is her job.
And, we live in a country where everyone should get adequate council. It doesn’t matter what they’ve been accused of doing, what they did, or what they didn’t do. It doesn’t matter if they are creepy, smell, are disgusting, a perv, guilty as sin, or evil.
Due Process is a Constitutional right and should never be bent and justified for anyone, ever.
Some people just don’t understand their civil rights, or think that those rights only apply to some people and not others- that should never be true.
The US Constitution decides who gets those rights, it should never be an opinion of the public, or an attorney who doesn’t like their client, or a judge, or jury member, or member of the victim’s family. People have died to secure those rights- and when they are violated for anyone- that puts them in jeopardy for everyone.
To me being a defense attorney would be similar to being a proctologist. It isn’t a job everyone would want to do- but someone has to do it, and do it well. It isn’t that they like the arses they have to deal with- it is their job. And- when my ars needs one- I hope there are good ones out there.
AT will likely cease face to face communications with BK now, and all communications soon as he has no chance of appeal.
I expect AT will likely have greater opportunities to serve high profile clients because she represented BK. Good for her
IMO
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