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Originally Posted by Izzibeth
Unfortunately, things are not as easy as your paragraph states and life simply doesn't work that way. A perfect example is the case of the West Memphis Three.
Defense attorneys are needed because a prosecutor wants to win just as badly as a defense attorney does. They pull out all of the tricks of the trade to do so sometimes even if the evidence points away from the suspect. |
Yes, I'm sorry, I meant criminal attorneys period. I do apologize for not including that, I'm going to edit that right now.
People should be able to represent themselves. Like I said, an innocent party simply needs to tell the truth. I read the court case in the link you provided, but it's not very relevant toward the point I was trying to make. The boy who gave the confession was not allowed legal counsel, which is wrong. Legal counsel is necessary, I do recognize that. The case of the West Memphis 3 is more of an example of the wrongdoing of law enforcement--interrogation without counsel or parental consent, as well as abbreviated and inconclusive audio taping of the questioning--than the justice system itself (although based on the text in the link you provided, the process by which they were convicted was wrong in numerous ways as well).
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