Re: Starving people refuse to eat food aid
Walter Bushell
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Robert Carnegie: Fnord: cc talk-o...@moderators.isc.or�g
<rja.ca...@excite.com> wrote:
> Walter Bushell wrote:
> > In article <hdqipp$4ed$2...@reader1.panix.com>,
> > "Keith F. Lynch" <k...@KeithLynch.net> wrote:
> >
> > > David Scheidt <dsch...@panix.com> wrote:
> > > > Brett Paul Dunbar <br...@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> > > >: Given his conduct in his own case for reinstatement, e.g. Attacking
> > > >: the court itself, I doubt that he would be capable of adequately
> > > >: representing a client.
> > >
> > > He's a man of principles. He won't apologize if he's sure he's right.
> > >
> > > > In fact, his own claims for reinstatment show he's incompetent. He
> > > > seems to think that he has a right to do what he wants to do, and
> > > > not do what his client tells him to. Rules that require him to act
> > > > in the manner his client tells him to are infringing his rights.
> > >
> > > If he can believed -- and I think he can -- that's not at all what
> > > happened. The prosecution were pressuring his clients to plead
> > > guilty, and he was advising them not to if he believed they were not
> > > guilty and that they could win at trial. And in many cases when the
> > > clients took his advice, they *did* win at trial. This was making
> > > prosecutors unhappy, so they cut a deal with a few of his clients for
> > > them to testify against him in return for clemency.
> > >
> > > On the other hand, I will agree with the prosecution that he often
> > > does come across as arrogant, overbearing, and intimidating. That
> > > doesn't make him wrong.
> >
> >
> >
> > "Arrogant, overbearing, and intimidating" could be good qualities in a
> > criminal defense lawyer.
>
> If I was a juror, they wouldn't impress me. Although it'd be
> different if everyone else in the courtroom is already arrogant,
> overbearing, and intimidating. At least they wouldn't stand out.
>
> Otherwise, for me folksy is good, up to a point. The point is quite a
> long way this side of "Ronald Reagan in a Presidential debate". Jimmy
> Carter was before my time really, was he folksy?
But you may need those attributes to get the truth out of the police and
other prosecution witnesses.
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Robert Carnegie
I dunno. I think prosecution witnesses, police especially but also
any witness worth coaching, are able to stick to the story they want
to tell while someone is arrogant, overbearing, and intimidating at
them.