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To: Ohioan
2. Can the silly ad hominem argument.

Referencing what happened in Germany...a process that began almost identically to what we see going on with the euthanasia movement in America today...is hardly 'ad hominem'. And it certainly isn't 'silly'.

I do not know what George Felos' personal philosophy is, and could not care less.

Perhaps you should care. Then perhaps you might undertake to become informed before you write long essays on such an important subject as this.

A trial lawyer represents a client--at least he is supposed to--and many times we get our best results for clients for whom we have the least personal sympathy. It really is not relevant to the soundness or unsoundness of the result, whether a lawyer is someone you like or dislike.

A paragraph that underlines very well one of the main problems with American lawyers and jurisprudence today.

500 posted on 05/03/2005 12:01:29 PM PDT by EternalVigilance ("We, the people, are the...masters of...the courts...to overthrow men who pervert the Constitution.")
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To: EternalVigilance
main problems with American lawyers amd jurisprudence today.

Do you realize what you just said? That a lawyer must like his/her client and have sympathy for them and the client must like the attorney? Okay, now that is truly one of the most ignorant statements I've ever read. That would certainly rule out most public defenders and any lawyer who defends a criminal. Lawyers aren't supposed to be in a popularity contest.

507 posted on 05/03/2005 12:11:57 PM PDT by unbalanced but fair
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