Todays letter to Editor

[fabsroman]

Skeeter,

I only have a couple of minutes to respond to this right now because I have to leave for Court, but it seems as though you are trying to sum up society's woes and put the blame on a profession and government, when in fact, society is to blame.

Last I checked, there are lawyers, judges, and juries involved in the entire legal process. The lawyers didn't get OJ off, the jury let OJ go. I am sure there was enough evidence to convict him, but the jury just couldn't do it.

As far as driver training is concerned, I have two clients going through it right now because their license was revoked for a guilty finding on driving under the influence, plus they are required to take a 6 month alcohol awareness course which consists of 26 hours of classroom time.

An attorney's job is to make sure that the legal process is followed. If an officer screws up and doesn't do things right, which is highly unlikely, it is our job to point that out. There is a process for everything.

As a truck driver, how many accidents did you see? How many people did you see speeding on the road? How many people did you see driving negligently on the road? Ever wonder how many people are killed each year because of this stuff. That definitely isn't the lawyers fault. How about putting some blame on police officers, or the lack thereof. How about putting some blame on taxpayers because we don't want to pay a lot in taxes and therefore law enforcement does not havet he budget they should have to enforce the laws.

Yeah, it is really easy to point the fingers at the attorneys, or the judges, or the doctors, or the truck drivers, or the accountants, etc., but at the end of the day I think it comes down to greedy, honorless people. That is why society is screwed up.

Now, I am off to represent a client pro bono because she is a poor single mother with two children. Probably won't get her off, but I am going to make sure that the officer has to prove his case. Nobody likes attorneys until they need one, and then some even dislike them afterward because they think the attorney did a bad job or took advantage of them. However, if you were charged with something you didn't do, which I have been, and you had no idea how to defend yourself, but hired an attorney that got the job done, I think you would think a little differently about attorneys in general.

Remember, it is the few bad apples in a profession that make the profession look bad. Problem is that most profession, and society as a whole, is getting more and more bad apples because good people see one bad apple and think it is okay to act like that. I cannot tell you how many people want to cheat on their tax returns because their neighbors do, or they want to abuse the system like their neighbors do. Too much worry about keeping up with the Jones.