[fabsroman]

Andy,

You and I will continue to disagree about a lot of things forever. What about the guys from Enron, should they get the death penalty. They essentially ruined hundreds of people's retirement, essentially ruining their lifes. Should they die? There is a lot of white collar crime that ruins people's lives.

At the end of everything, I would need to see/her exactly what this guy did before I could say yay or nay on the death penalty. If it was merely inappropriate fondling/inappropriate touching and all the girl's clothes were on, I don't think I could give him the death penalty.

I had a prospective client come to me a couple of months ago because his ex-wife was petitioning the Court for full custody. Turns out that this man was sleeping in the same bed as his 8 year old daughter and that he was still helping her toilet. I declined the case, can somewhat understand the sleeping problem because he lives in a mobile home. I cannot quite understand the toileting thing, unless the girl truly still needs help toileting, but I would presume that she doesn't because the mother was pretty appauled to find out about this.

Anyway, as I preach in all my threads, unless we know the facts it is pretty hard to judge and figure out what to do. What if this guy has a couple of young children of his own and the facts are as stated above (i.e., inappropriate touching with all clothes in place)? Would you pull the trigger on this guy with his young children in the courtroom?

We always try to over simplify things on this board into a black and white argument, but they aren't. We always like to say what we will do, but one never knows what they will do until the situation presents itself.

For instance, everybody likes to think they will jump in front of a bullet to save their buddy. Most people like to think they wouldn't be scared to get off the troop transports on D-Day. At the end of the day, our decisions can only be made when they are presented to us, and even though we rehearse them it usually doesn't work out the same.