EOC Week 3

I do not believe that the United States legal system is effective as it should be. The system is much more sensible than a lot of other countries, but it still needs some work in my opinion. In order to defend yourself in a court of law you have to know all of the ins and outs and loopholes there are or get a good lawyer. If you are arrested for a crime you didn’t commit in this country and you don’t have good representation you will most likely be found guilty.

“Some of our laws came from sources that were not originally concerned with human freedom.” (Essentials of Business Law, Liuzzo, pg. 8). In order to make a majority of people somewhat happy with the legal system there must be compromise. For example in the case of Roe vs. Wade there was a compromise, that case made some people upset, but others were pleased with the decision. I think that the quote is saying that people can’t have complete freedom, and there has to be compromise, because complete freedom would be anarchy.

I also think there should some more amendments to the constitution, it needs to be updated because things are different than they were back in 1776 and the U.S. constitution has only been amended 27 times. Overall I am grateful for the system we have but, I think it needs a little reforming and changes.

EOc Week 2

Most of the time articles in the newspaper don’t accuse people of committing a crime, they just insinuate because if they flat out accuse someone of something the paper can be sued. In a recent case a woman and her daughter set up a MySpace account pretending to be a young man named josh, and they made the girl next door fall in love with this fake boy and they had the boy break up with her. Shortly after the break up message was sent the thirteen year old girl killed herself. This case is a great example of why kids should not be able to go online without supervision, because the person that they are chatting with could be anyone. It is also completely outrageous that the mother was in on the hoax and wanted to humiliate a 13 year old girl.

EOC Week 1

I think that most lawyers are money oriented rather than morally oriented. There are a few exceptions though, for example; public defenders don’t have much to gain financially because their clients can’t afford to hire an attorney, but they try to help these people and I admire that, the problem with public defenders is that they usually are not the greatest attorneys and take on more cases than they can handle. In my opinion if these public defenders had a chance to work at a big firm and make a lot of money they would take the job even if they did not agree morally with the practices of the law firm.

If you want to be a lawyer and make a lot of money you cannot have any morals or at least pretend you don’t, because in some cases you need to defend the person that is guilty or someone that you don’t agree with morally. Most of the time the judicial system favors the side that has the best lawyer and the most money, which goes hand in hand. A good lawyer can make a guilty man look innocent and an innocent man look guilty and the lawyer will take whatever side offers the most money to them.

The only way to get decent representation in a court case is to have enough money to hire a good lawyer, there are not a lot of “fair” trials for that reason because you can pretty much buy a case and that is how the court system works. So basically what I am trying to say is that most lawyers out there are sleazy bastards that just want your money, and it doesn’t matter if your guilty or innocent, they will defend you if you offer them enough money.