Marla Zamora was known for taking the toughest cases (which is code for “guilty as sin slam dunks committed by the absolute worst of society”) and defended them with every fiber of her being.
This is noble, I guess, and there is a role for this in our judicial system, but on some level we can’t help but hope a Marla Zamora-type will convince a jury that the guy that was found covered in her blood in her house should be found not guilty.
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Whew! With any luck, the miscreants she defended were never forced to have sex with her.
If she had ever been successful getting one of her guilty felony clients freed who committed additional crimes, she reaped what she had sown.
Not the way I wish anyone to end their life. With the long list of clients, She should have been armed.
Karma’s a Bitch.
Another, and IMO more beneficial, way to look at the role of the defense attorneys in criminal cases, whether public defender or private lawyer, is that they are the ones who make the govt, which has overwhelmingly more power, money, and people resources, truly prove their cases beyond reasonable doubt. They are a check on the misuse of govt power. If the govt can get away with convicting a true sleazebag with a shoddy, imperfect, or dishonest case, then that same govt could get away with convicting you or me or any other innocent person if such a conviction suited its purposes.
I hope the perp is someone she got off that was guilty as hell, and everyone knew it. I expect every liberal shit hole city has public defenders that do more harm than good.
I care not a whit for lawyers …
but I’m sure that she probably may have believed (mistakenly perhaps) that what she did was in the better interests of society.
Or, at least I hope so.
RIP
izlamo delenda est …
Before I became a prosecutor, I occasionally took a criminal case and told the prosecutor up front, my job was to defend my client, and if he was found guilty to see that it was done according to Hoyle. I never had an innocent one be found guilty, and I felt secure that if the guilty ones appealed, the appellate court would find that I did my job as required.
I feel sorry for her, but if you play with snakes long enough, sooner or later, you get one who bites.
Glad I stayed on the prosecution side, though.
That is a good position Govlawer.
Her position was anything but noble.
I public defenders job is NOT getting an acquittal, especially for a guilty person. Their job is to defend the rights of the charged individual and nothing more.
In fact, helping a person one knows to be guilty avoid the application of the law is itself usually a crime. I don’t know why lawyers are not charged when they admit (as Hillary did in the case of the child rapist) or are caught doing so.
It’s not the role of the defense to decide if their client is guilty or not.
The worse thing in the world is to be innocent and not have a single person, including your defense attorney, believe you.
So, the role is for your attorney to put up a rigorous defense, and it is a noble profession.
However, some lawyers take it too far, like in the case of O.J. Simpson’s lawyers, who put the prosecution on trial and in the end asked for jury nullification by pleading to “do the right thing” in the face of overwhelming evidence that OJ did it.
So, where is this line that the defense must draw? At what point do they, themselves, throw in the towel on a client because it looks like they did it. It’s a tough answer.
I draw the line at shitheads like Ron Kuby and William Kunstler-
On December 7, 1993, Colin Ferguson marched up the aisle of a crowded, evening rush-hour Long Island Railroad car, shooting the passengers as the train pulled into the Merillion Avenue station. When he was finished, six were dead and 19 were injured.
Noted criminal defense specialists William M. Kunstler and Ronald L. Kuby took Ferguson’s case. They attempted to introduce a “black rage” defense on Ferguson’s behalf. They argued that years of living in an oppressive, race-biased society had so affected Ferguson’s mind that he was not acting wilfully when he opened fire on unarmed commuters. -https://www.law.cornell.edu/background/insane/lirr.html
These are the defense lawyers that need to be boiled in oil.
in 2000, her client a convicted rapist, didn’t show up for sentencing. she was flummoxed!
in 2001, she was arrested for habouring a felon and resisting arrest. the felon was her nephew.
recently, she defended edwin ramos an illegal alien ms-13 gang member ILLEGAL for killing an innocent father and his two children.
she was the problem, not the solution.
Zact same thing happened in Portland Oregon 2009. Still unsolved.
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2009/11/assistant_us_public_defender_f.html
Good.
@BFH:
Yes, right next to some of those despicable lying and cheating prosecutors, virtually immune themselves from sanctions, whose only interest is in chalking up convictions in order to advance their careers and elected office prospects. Thank goodness there are still a lot of honest prosecutors out there, but even they have a bad blind spot when it comes to disciplining their own colleagues.
Update!
her nephew killed her. wonder if the same nephew she harboured in 2000.
Update
Her nephew killed her. Bingo!
BFH, I hope you were not responding to me, as I said nothing about a PD ‘deciding’ guilt.
The OJ case is also not representative to my point. there were not witnesses, guilt had to be proved.
The Dan White (Harvey Milk), case is more to the point. Guilt or innocence was never an issue. There are many such cases, and the one I posted related to Hillary is also one.
“She was just a tremendously caring, compassionate person.” Which, at some point, simply made her an enabler.
Hat, living about 4 miles away from the Merillon Avenue station (and having caught trains from there on a number of occasions) , I can tell you that I was ashamed of my profession with the despicable display put on by Kuby and Kuntsler. You are spot on.
By ’93, I was already working for the good guys.
The wages of defending worthless shitbags… They have exactly zero gratitude.