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Public Defenders as witnesses to crime

By ti

Blonde Justice recently posed a great question: Can the Defense Ever Be Pro-Proseuction? Her hypo is about a fellow defense attorney “who had recently been a crime victim.” He decided to give a statement, agreed to testify against the arrested suspects, etc. I’m not sure what she means by “crime victim,” but assuming she means that this PD was the person directly injured, either physically or financially, by some breach of the law, then ok; the hypo doesn’t seem that difficult. Of course the PD can choose to cooperate with the prosecution. Possibly “Harry” said it best in his comment to BJ’s post: Defense attorneys don’t exist to help criminals, but to prevent innocent people from being convicted...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Imbroglio on May 05, 2008 (boomark / email).