{"id":487,"date":"2010-06-09T17:30:52","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T21:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/?p=487"},"modified":"2010-06-09T17:30:52","modified_gmt":"2010-06-09T21:30:52","slug":"scott-greenfield-can-dish-it-out-but-he-cant-take-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/?p=487","title":{"rendered":"Scott Greenfield can dish it out, but he can’t take it."},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m burning a bridge today. After I posted this comment<\/a> on Scott Greenfield’s post today about the Slackoisie<\/a>, Scott posted this response<\/a> to my comment. Since Scott’s response, among other things, misrepresented a previous discussion we’d had, I replied with another comment, which Scott has since deleted from the comment thread. Scott then sent me the following email:<\/p>\n

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John,<\/div>\n
Since your return as a commenter at SJ, you’ve maintained a level head and appropriate tone.\u00a0 Today, you lost it.\u00a0 I do not care to spar with you.\u00a0It offers me nothing.\u00a0 Do you want to continue to be allowed to comment?\u00a0 If so, let me know.\u00a0 But I will not tolerate your returning to your old ways.\u00a0 If I ban you again, that will be it.<\/div>\n
Scott<\/div>\n

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Here’s the comment which Scott deleted:<\/div>\n

Of course as criminal defense attorneys we have a moral and professional obligation to put our clients first. I assure you that you and I have never had a “discussion before” where I argued that we can put ourselves before our clients. (If you’re referring to our discussion about whether criminal defense attorneys can legitimately claim to be serving “Justice” by serving our clients, wherein you argued that we can’t while I argued that we can, I certainly never said anything in the course of that discussion remotely resembling the claim that we can put our own interests ahead of our clients.)<\/p>\n

If, in fact, as you suppose, the “slackoisie” are characterized by their tendency to put their own interests ahead of their clients, this is absolutely a fit subject for “exhortation” to show them the error of their ways and the error of their thinking. But I seriously doubt referring them to the rules of professional conduct will do the trick. Rather, it’s a basic matter of human virtue, a matter about which generations before the “slackoisie” have struggled, to improve themselves and others. That was my point.<\/p>\n

I hope that when you conduct your cross-examinations you listen a little better to what the witness you’re interrogating is saying, so that the jury doesn’t think you’re putting words in his mouth and trying to pull a fast one on them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s my answer to Scott’s email. Will this blawg survive having been deprived of all connection to the thought leader of the practical blawgosphere? Only time will tell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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