[Cincinatus' Wife]

There will always be sick, evil people. And there will always be lawyers trying to get them off.

[ventana]

What a woman hater that Physician was/is. He is a sick and evil person and the social welfare workers and England's child protection agency have run amuck and are ruinous and dangerous. This sort of thing can and does happen here. Thank God for FR where reports of abuse by agencies are recorded . The press would never get it right. We are, at the least, informed and aware. V's wife.

[pragmatic_asian]

"There will always be sick, evil people. And there will always be lawyers trying to get them off."

And there will also be lawyers trying to put them in prison but the real question is how do you really know if someone is guilty? As you said yourself, all it takes is for a kernal of truth for idiots to jump on as a huge problem in need of massive change. Criticism of lawyers definitely falls into that. Less than a percent of criminal defendants plead insanity and less than 1/10 of those actually succeed and nearly half of those are guilty pleas by reason of mental defect pleas (you did it because you were crazy). If there is a problem with our system for defining legal insanity, it's in allowing lay jurors making determination instead of some medical panel. So blame your fellow citizens for 'falling' for that defense. The really funny thing is that people who plead guilty by reason of mental defect often serve longer terms in mental facilities than they would have if they had just plead guilty straight-up.