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.