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Just the cost of doing business

By Shawn Matlock

I have posted before about the ridiculous nature of the court-appointed attorney system of which we are burdened. There are any number of things I don't like about it. The fact that somehow a person who has tried five second degree felonies as a prosecutor is more equipped to defend someone of a comparable crime than someone that has SUCCESSFULLY DEFENDED someone of the same. That a person who sat in the D.A.'s office for five years gaining "experience" trying cases is somehow more qualified to appeal a conviction than a defense attorney who didn't work for the state prosecuting people. The whole notion of court-appointed "qualifications" is ridiculous. It is, and anyone that says differently is retarded. I'm sorry. I don't mean to offend retarded people by comparing them to those that come up with this stuff, but seriously...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Matlock Blog on February 05, 2008 (boomark / email).