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worth a second look: Understanding Defense-Initiated Victim Outreach And Why It Is Essential In Defending A Capital Client by Mickell Branham & Richard Burr

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

I went back and read Understanding Defense-Initiated Victim Outreach And Why It Is Essential In Defending A Capital Client by Mickell Branham & Richard Burr after merely skimming it.  WOWSER. From that article A murder evokes empathy. Upon first hearing of a murder in our communities, we immediately feel sadness and loss and an outpouring of feeling for the people who loved the victim. We shudder with them. We feel drawn to express sympathy. We cry. Most people feel, shortly thereafter, ?Why did someone do this?? ?How could he (we usually think, ?he?)?? ?What sort of monster is he?? As people engaged in capital defense work, we think about the murderer as well, but in different terms?how traumatized this person must have been, how unloved, un-nurtured, and impaired, how hurt he must have been...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on August 12, 2008 (boomark / email).