08.20.07
Fodder for “How Can You Represent Those People?”
I realize that the answer of “even the guilty ones deserve the best legal representation” does not always go over very well to the inevitable “But how can you DO that for a living? How can you represent those people?” questions. And the “think of it as me keeping the system honest” response sometimes sparks an entirely new discussion about me being anti-cop. So I like to keep a little arsenal of gut-wrenching stories of the innocent persecuted by the system, so I can at least fall back on “you wouldn’t want this to happen, would you?” And I have found another one. I don’t have much time to go into it, but the NYTimes Magazine story about the Norfolk Four speaks for itself.
