Why do they try to defend or get a person off the hook when they know that he indeed commit a horrible crime? I would drop the case and call the person a waste of a human life, but some lawyers after knowing the truth still seek to set them free, I know what it is, Money right?
2006-09-05 02:53:11 · 20 answers · asked by Enterrador 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Yes, its because of money! Of course! This world is full of greedy, money hungry nobodys! Remember Liar Liar? Where Jim Carrey told lie after lie? And his son wished that he couldn't lie anymore?! LOL! I always think of him in that movie when I think of lawyers. My image of them is that they're LIARS!
2006-09-05 03:42:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am currently in my second year of law school and I can say for sure that a great many law students in my classes have little or no ethics or morals. Alot are motivated by money and base there career choices upon that and that alone. As for defending a person when they know they are guilty does not really happen, a lawyer representing a client who is guilty and a lawyer trying to free them from a crime they obviously committed are two completly different things. Most lawyers defending clients accused of a crime are not in it for the money, for the most part it is the least amount of money a lawyer can make. The real money is in commercial law and those areas rather than criminal. I intend to be working for legal aid who defends those who do not have the cash for a lawyer, I can assure you I will be making far less than I would if I went into another area of law. Yes lawyers will sometimes still try to get a client of charges if they are guilty though it is not a frequent occurence.
2006-09-05 03:37:04 · answer #2 · answered by Tim B 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Money has nothing at all to do with intelligence. NOTTADAMNTHANG. I've known far too many lie-awyers to make this call. They all lack morale and humanity. They ave no ethics, no nothing but education. Intelligence is not linked to education..there are many educated people who did not learn via traditional textbook methods and these are usually the better people in society. I'd take street smarts over being brainwashed by textbooks to the point of no humanity and greed much less extreme narcissism any day.
2015-04-24 09:30:17 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sometimes it is hard to tell if lawyers are actual people, but your right , just like some people lawyers are devoid of good morals and ethics.
2006-09-05 02:59:04 · answer #4 · answered by rumpled 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
i dislike politicians. As a group i think they are corrupt. Most were lawyers. Money is the center of the universe. its what everyone wants deep down.
they must be extremely intelligent men/women to pass the bar so you would think they might have enough smarts to do whats right, moral and ethically. The smarter you the more money you make. Lawyers make good money. The more intelligent you are evidently causes you to be more smart about money. Its the money. you are right.....
2006-09-05 03:04:18 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Do some lawyers HAVE morals or ethics?
2006-09-05 03:24:43 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are mistaken. The job of a lawyer is to advocate on behalf of his client and to preserve the client's rights and to analyze situations for their effect on the client's interests. "Winning the case," as you put it, is important, but is not always possible in light of the law and the ethical guidelines imposed by the profession as a whole and by the individual bars of which one is a member. The law school curricula in all American (and most Western) law schools includes at least one formal course on ethics and ethical lessons are informally interspersed with the substantive topics of all law school course. When one encounters a lawyer who is not behaving ethically, one has met someone who has "gone off script" and sacrificed the standards that the rest of the profession strives to uphold. Unfortunately, those are the ones that tend to make the news because it is seldom newsworthy when one does one's job proficiently AND in an ethical manner.
2016-03-17 08:35:38 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm sure money is a huge part of it. There are some lawyers who just learn to live with it after a while. I would drop the case as well. I would rather they just let me think they were innocent rather than telling me the truth, because I couldn't deal with it.
2006-09-05 03:00:03 · answer #8 · answered by Niecy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are all blessed with the right of due process under the law. That means every one charged with a crime gets to have a lawyer. Even the worst criminal can only be punished to the extent that the laws allow. The reason our founding fathers built it that way is because they came from a place where it was not that way and the injustice they observed was horrible.
So it was deemed a small price to pay to offer a better chance for innocent people to have a chance to defend them selves.
We don't have the court systme for the innocent only. Every one is inocent till proven guilty...We don't throw the book at them till AFTER the tial.
By your logic they are at least in part convicted before the trial begins because no one qualified will defend them. Thats exactly what the founding fathers wanted to get away from.
I understand your contemp for some really nasty people. But to deny them equal protection under the law would be to make you vulnerable to lose your equal protection under the law.
Sauce for the goose, is sauce for the gander.
2006-09-05 03:12:43 · answer #9 · answered by john d 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
John Edwards is a prime example. He sued doctors and hospitals to make his millions then turns around and SAYS he supports low cost health care? Who paid for all these millions he made? We all did (and still) do by the increase in health care costs (paying off a lawsuit and the increased malpractice insurance are costs, and all costs are passed on to the consumer).
It is money and power..in short GREED!
2006-09-05 03:15:28 · answer #10 · answered by mymadsky 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋