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CeciliaWangFirstPaper 10 - 09 Jul 2010 - Main.CeciliaWang
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It is strongly recommended that you include your outline in the body of your essay by using the outline as section titles. The headings below are there to remind you how section and subsection titles are formatted. | | | The adversarial method of our criminal courts may have many benefits that make the system more efficient and fair than impartial investigators – possibly because we simply are not so naïve to believe that thousands upon thousands of investigators and judges can be trusted to remain impartial and uncorrupted. For one, by forcing lawyers to take sides, we eliminate the whole problem of the moral issue. | |
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< | The Question that Sparked this Paper
The Original Question (Paraphrased) | >
> | The Original Question (Paraphrased) | | | "If your supervisor needed you to work on a case against a defendant whose [moral?] guilt you doubt."
The obvious professional answer, now that I see how county prosecutors handle their cases, is: "Then I will do as I am told, which would be to call witnesses and investigate the case in hopes of finding evidence for the prosecution, and then present the prosecutor with the exculpatory evidence I find and ask for the case to be dismissed for insufficiency." | | | Most people, and therefore most prosecutors, are not evil. Great harm can be caused though, when one, numbed by repetition and quantity of work, becomes lazy or thoughtless or stubborn, as everyone can easily be at times. They will search for crimes when perhaps none were intended for no better reason than a case file was already prepared. ADA Anna ignored my suggestion that a man's criminal trespass, into the apartment of a woman who possessed an order of protection against him, was an honest mistake. Defense counsel filed a motion stating he entered into the apartment to pick up their son. The son told me he had no idea why his father went to the apartment, but during a second conversation remembered that his father called him later to ask him where he was, said he expected the son to be at the apartment, and then picked him up from a park. If he is a perfectly rational man, he should have known to not risk being charged with a felony (elevated due to the OP) and not entered her apartment without permission. The poor defendant will be kept in legal limbo because the obvious antagonism between attorneys on both sides, underneath the veneer of congeniality during courtroom breaks, makes conceding a good point exceedingly hard. | |
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> | "They Think They're Gods" and They Don't Want to "Lose the Snowball Fight" | | | “When defense counsel gets the Complainant to say she doesn’t want to go forward in the case, that she hit herself in the head with a phone three times, accidentally, he thinks he just made a big snowball that will knock down our cases,” my supervisor once said. “To overcome that big snowball, we must prepare twenty snowballs of our own.” Those snowballs of evidence include: 911 tapes that recorded a clearly terrified voice, photographs, the responding police officer’s impression of the situation, medical records, domestic incidence reports. |
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