The New Lawyer Supplement
May 31, 2007
Representing 'Those People' - Notes on Criminal Defense
"How do you defend those people?" It's a question that sooner or later every criminal defense lawyer must field, and I've heard it a lot. When I was a public-defender law clerk, "those people" were poor folks in Washington, D.C., accused of crimes.
"How do you defend those people?" It's a question that sooner or later every criminal defense lawyer must field, and I've heard it a lot. When I was a public-defender law clerk, "those people" were poor folks in Washington, D.C., accused of crimes. In my first job out of law school, "those people" referred to someone targeted by the Bush Justice Department for alleged aiding of terrorism. And the last time t...
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