<DIV>All the public defenders and criminal defense lawyers (I am one) I know agree that almost all their clients are guilty -- probably of the things for which they were charged, or worse. jks Mike Ballard <swillsqueal@yahoo.com.au> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">As a public defender once told me, "Most people that end up in my office are poor; they're guilty of something." He grew up poor, Hispanic, in Texas. He became a PD because he had ideals,once. Kelley ******************* "The lack of money is the root of all evil." ---Mark Twain http://profiles.yahoo.com/swillsqueal ===== ***************************************************************** The unreal unity proclaimed by the spectacle masks the class division underlying the real unity of the capitalist mode of production. What obliges the producers to participate in the construction of the world is also what excludes them from it. What brings people into relation with each other by liberating them from their local and national limitations is also what keeps them apart. What requires increased rationality is also what nourishes the irrationality of hierarchical exploitation and repression. What produces society’s abstract power also produces its concrete lack of freedom. http://profiles.yahoo.com/swillsqueal __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com ___________________________________ http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk</BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><hr SIZE=1> Do you Yahoo!? <a href="http://pa.yahoo.com/*http://rd.yahoo.com/evt=1207/*http://promo.yahoo.com/sbc/">SBC Yahoo! DSL</a> - Now only $29.95 per month!