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Lawyers and the First Amendment

Two Pennsylvania judges sold children into slavery in the infamous Cash-4-Kids scam.  By law, lawyers who appeared before those corrupt judges were not allowed to stop the human trafficking. Why do judges put self-interest above the public interest? Suspicious things happen in courtrooms across the country. In one Pennsylvania juvenile court, two judges would send children to juvenile prisons when 99% of other judges would have issued probation as the strongest sanction. There wasn?t a lawyer who appeared before these judges who did not realize that the only explanation was corruption. Had any of these lawyers spoken out, they would have lost their ability to earn a living. Unlike the rest of the public, lawyers have limited First Amendment rights...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on September 13, 2009 (boomark / email).