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Harris DA's Office Seeks Justice For Some

By Gritsforbreakfast

Mark Bennett shares a recent email exchange with an ADA from the Harris County District Attorney's Office (now under new management), where Bennett opined:Our next DA needs to know that he or she is not part of a dynasty, is only temporary, is human and fallible, and answers ultimately to the families of the accused, who greatly outnumber the families of the victims.The reply was particularly telling - one of those moments where first order assumptions spring forth that the (anonymous) correspondent has probably never seriously considered or even spoken out loud:I?ve felt compassion for defendants from DWI offenders to murderers. But their families? . . . . I don?t think I owe anything to a defendant?s family.Amazing. And we wonder why locking folks up doesn't reduce crime...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on March 14, 2008 (boomark / email).