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When a jailer suffers the justice system's injustices / How prepared should a prosecutor be?

By Marks & Katz, LLC

  Bill of Rights (From public domain.) When I started practicing criminal defense, I spoke with a very experienced criminal defense lawyer who told me that he had never prosecuted, but expected he would love it if he had such a job; this was a variation on a theme of some former prosecutors who recommended that I precede my criminal defense career by prosecuting, which I refused to do. I take it that only finances got in his way of such work. A former prosecutor, asked what such work was like, said it was one of the easiest jobs he ever had.  A private practice lawyer who includes criminal defense work four business days weekly prosecutes misdemeanors once a week for a nearby city; he recently described the work mainly as preparing the cases on the court day, letting the cops issue witness subpoenas, and asking "what happened next?" at trials as a substitute for doing pretrial date case preparation...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on April 23, 2008 (boomark / email).