Stan emailed that he has been offered a job as a paralegal in the office of a california criminal lawyer but he’s not quite sure if he will take the job offer or not. He thinks that it would be very interesting work, but he thinks that his wife would object to him working for a los angeles criminal defense lawyer and be looking for legal loopholes that might help criminal case defendents be acquited of a crime that they really committed.
When I was reading the email it reminded me of the time that my step-father was serving on jury duty and he would come home and eat supper with the family and tell us a few of the vague details of the case(s) that he was hearing in court. I can remember him talking about how he was always going to vote “guilty” in the trials because he was sure that if the police had enough evidence to arrest the defendent then the defendent was guilty of “something” and deserved to go to jail even if the defendent was not guilty of that particular crime being tried at the time. I can remember being mortified at that logic and felt that working as a defense attorney was a noble profession. As I’ve gotten older, however, I’m not quite so sure. I know that everyone is entitled to a fair trial and is entitled to the best legal advice they can get, but I would really have a hard time looking at myself in the mirror if I were a defense attorney and were defending someone that I believed to be guilty.
. So now I hope that I’ll be able to find a different time/event to wear it. Maybe the next time that I go to church. I wonder how many people in church would even notice it and comment on it.