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So, I had one of those "public defender" days today. Unless you have been a public defender, you will not know what I am talking about. Even private defense counsel don't know what it is like, although it is close. One of those days where you realize that the "justice" system is corrupt. Rigged against your client. Designed to screw your client. Where you watch the DA's do whatever they want and never get called on it. Knowing that if you pulled the same stunt the judge would do everything he or she could to see you disbarred. Watch judges do whatever they want, which, for some reason, is always what the State wants. I guess I have written about this before, but I had one of those days where I wanted desperately, frantically to do anything else. I am tired of trying to hold back the tide of tyranny. I am tired of trying to save those who don't want to be saved. I am so tired of the double standard that exists between the Defense and the State. I am tired of watching those who are responsible for ensuring justice is delivered scrape and bow before the State. Looking like a deer in the headlights when I cite controlling law that might conceivably help the Defense. It was the same in BC when I was a lawyer there. Worse in California. Disappointing in Alaska. I'm going to tell this to my little girl: do anything but be a lawyer. Anything. Because this job will suck that smile right off that pretty face.

Full post as published by A Public Defender's Life in Alaska on October 02, 2007 (boomark / email).