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Justice Scalia on criminal defense lawyers?

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

Justice Scalia on C-SPAN; is he complaining about criminal defense lawyers or female lawyers? I am all and all more impressed by the quality of the lawyers before us than I am discouraged by their lack of competence. Former Chief Justice Burger was a severe critic of the bar. He thought that the lawyers that appeared before our Court were not at all as good as they ought to be. That really hasn’t been my experience. I -- now and then you get somebody who is really quite bad, but more often I am startled by the fact that this young woman who is a public defender from Podunk is so good, is so smart, is so competent. And I ask myself, “What is she doing being a public defender in Podunk? Why isn’t she out inventing the automobile or, you know, doing something useful?”continue to full post

Full post as published by Law Of Criminal Defense on May 08, 2008 (boomark / email).