09-05-2013, 01:48 PM
David Guyatt Wrote:Magda Hassan Wrote:Adele Edisen Wrote:Death penalty lawyer Clarke 'humanizes' client and juryI thought a lawyer for the defense was meant to defend against the charges?
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Last week, at a forum at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, Clarke delivered the keynote address, explaining that her job was to convince reluctant clients that opting for prison was better than choosing a death sentence.
Is she some sort of lawyer who buries inconvenient people away for the state with out looking at the rest of the evidence? I don't know any thing about her but this just seems odd to me.
Adele Edisen Wrote:There is no evidence that Tsarnaev, a naturalized U.S. citizen and a student at the University of Massachusetts, suffered from psychological problems.There is little evidence that I have seen available publicly that he had much to do with the bombing either.
If you can get your clients to plead guilty in exchange for a lesser punishment, you wave farewell to a trial and erase all those associated prospects of airing conflicting information. Even to a captured and compliant MSM this would present a problem, with this being such a high profile case.,
It will be quite interesting to see how this is handled. He allegedly "confessed" in the hospital, to the police. But this was pre- Miranda. Was he "in custody"? Well he was certainly not free to leave. So, if in custody the confession is out in a NORMAL case. (No Miranda, motion to suppress trumps). Of course this case is so far from normal. And of course they will argue that he was NOT in custody therefore the "confession" was voluntary, not a result of custodial interrogation. He was handcuffed to the damn bed so I don't know under what legal theory they can argue that it was not custody. Personally I don't buy that there was a confession. But I am sure they will have one all typed up that he "signed".
And his lawyer will get him to plead to "save his life." We all know how these cases go.
Dawn