{"id":539,"date":"2010-08-02T14:36:10","date_gmt":"2010-08-02T18:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/?p=539"},"modified":"2010-08-02T14:36:10","modified_gmt":"2010-08-02T18:36:10","slug":"much-ado-about-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/?p=539","title":{"rendered":"Much Ado About Nothing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My latest effort to clarify and simplify what I&#8217;ve been trying to say is <a href=\"http:\/\/normpattis.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/justice-and-factual-innocence-not-my.html?showComment=1280763234012#c1942475927468948713\">here<\/a>, in a comment on a post by Norm Pattis:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When I link Justice with the role of the criminal defense attorney I primarily have in mind our war against the injustices of the State. The State is the largest criminal organization on the planet. Its crimes dwarf those committed by private persons. But yes, private persons commit real crimes and real injustices too. I hate crimes committed by private persons for the same reasons I hate crimes committed by the State. Nevertheless, it is Just that we defend people accused of crimes regardless of their guilt or innocence because . . . &#8220;it is better for ten guilty men to be set free than for one innocent person to be convicted.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The conviction of the innocent is a crime if ever there was one, and I suspect it occurs more frequently than the acquittal of the guilty.<\/p>\n<p>Why do I think it&#8217;s important to link Justice with the role of the criminal defense attorney? Because to say &#8220;we defend&#8221; says nothing. It&#8217;s a tautology. We are &#8220;crime-fighters.&#8221; Maybe by saying so we&#8217;ll get more respect, not for our own sakes, but for the sake of a freer society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My latest effort to clarify and simplify what I&#8217;ve been trying to say is here, in a comment on a post by Norm Pattis: When I link Justice with the role of the criminal defense attorney I primarily have in mind our war against the injustices of the State. The State is the largest criminal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":540,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions\/540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}