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Being an Effecitve Advocate for Your Client - Part I

By M. James Jenkins, Esq.

People in Positions of Authority Certainly prosecutors are in a ?position of authority? as are many of us in some form or fashion. Being a former prosecutor for a few years I can still remember how it felt to be the ?proverbial good guy with the white hat? (my boss told me that), the sense of power having a badge gave me and how it felt when I began my new job right out of law school as a new prosecutor. For goodness sakes, I was able to make decisions about the proprieties of arrests by law enforcement officers who had many more years of experience than I did! I also remember the ?cloak of credibility? jurors seemed to give me merely because it seemed I was on the ?good guys team.? (Something else my old boss told me). Like many people, being a prosecutor was my first job out of law school...continue to full post

Full post as published by Florida Criminal Law Blog on March 15, 2009 (boomark / email).