I stand corrected, you did say "advise" & I assumed it was meant as advice from a professer. Yes, access does come in many ways. When my daughter was in both the public defender's office & prosecuter's office she had "access" to criminals & of course they had "access" to her. The clients she visited in jail gave her a lot of "advise." So yes, there a lot of ways, be it in a classroom, a jail cell or an article that has been published. It was not my intent to "p" you off OR try to solict personal info.
My daughter probably will practice in NC. Her desire is prosecution. Thank you for the advise on grades. She was on the deans list for her B.S. & her masters & did very well on her LSats. I am sorry you don't have a high regard for the NC court system. Other than the Duke case I am not aware of any problems. As you are aware, there are good and bad lawyers all over.
We will agree to disagree on the Casey case. I can only form my ideas based on what I know at this point. I am anxious to hear all the evidence on BOTH sides. And for what it's worth, I also favor professional jurors.
Of all the places in the U.S. where I would avoid a position in a D.A.s office, it's North Carolina -- even Bakersfield, CA comes in 2nd.
For ease (and because it's late), I'm going to repost here what I fairly recently posted in the parking lot (S. Peterson thread 30, post 104) in response to a question on NC prosecutors.
"North Carolina remains corrupt, because its LE has forever manufactured incriminating evidence and hid exculpatory evidence. Likewise, D.A. offices have long hid, ignored, or turned a blind eye and a deaf ear to exculpatory evidence (Brady material). It's endemic. It's systemic. It's their culture. It's their way of life. They can't stop doing it. And it's never their fault.
Simply put, Nifong was no accident or aberration. Nifong perfectly represents NC justice. Decades will pass before jurisprudence in NC can hope to be clean.
Moreover, until recent years, prosecutors hid exculpatory evidence as a matter of a State policy by the Attorney General. That's not a joke. It was State policy to ignore three separate Supreme Court rulings -- Brady, Giglio, Bagley.
"In September, the state's senior prosecutor was in an unusual place: the witness stand. And what he said has caused quite a stir among lawyers around the state.
Jim Coman said under oath that the state Attorney General's Office had a policy of withholding a certain type of evidence helpful to defendants. As he described it, the policy would violate 30 years of U.S. Supreme Court rulings."
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/cri...ry/249929.html
While I was there, Freda Black -- she and James Harding were the prosecutors in the Michael Peterson murder trial -- was called to the witness stand. She admitted that in a case she prosecuted seven years ago that she, knowingly, did not follow-up on exculpatory evidence that assuredly could have prevented a wrongful conviction. The Judge, Orlando Hudson overturned the jury's verdict and went so far as to say that he did not believe that the man who had spent seven years in prison had committed the crime.
As I said, Nifong was no accident or abberation. The whole state is a cesspool of corruption."
You should advise your daughter to research: Alan Gell, Jonathon Hoffman, Alfred Riviera, Charles Munsey, Tim Hennis, Jerry Hamilton, and Darly Hunt (to name but a few cases akin to the Duke lacrosse rape case -- except those cases involve prosecutorial misdeeds/misconduct/malacious prosecution in murder cases.
She should really gain firsthand knowledge of just how bad the prosecutor situation is in NC before she associates her name with any D.A. office within that state, ethics remains a dirty word and honesty is still a laugher.
HTH
That brief, four-pronged examination would seem to weed out pretty efficiently, hitting all the points.
