It gets weirder just doing a short amount of research too.
Basically, when I was in law school, I took criminal law with a professor of dubious ethics. He was actually a rather good teacher, but as a practicing attorney prior to teaching, his bread and butter was defending Colombian (and other) drug lords in American courts.
His defense of such a thing was that "if [he] didn't do it, there were hundreds of other lawyers ready to jump in his place."
And he's kinda right...somebody is gonna do it. He quit a long time ago to become a teacher, but perhaps it was because his office was firebombed in Miami and his partner was killed. Basically they couldn't get somebody off the hook. Oh well.
The long and short of morality.
Oh, and he was adamant about one thing...that you should stop smoking pot if you want to become a lawyer. LULZ
Now, on looking him up shit gets a bit weird. He was on the defense team during the Watergate trial for Robert Mardian, who was the Assistant Attorney General for Internal Security during President Nixon's first term. Mardian was also involved in the Pentagon Papers.
Not only that, the professor has written multiple books on Watergate, including one entitled The Watergate Conspiracy Conviction and Appeal of Assistant Attorney General Robert Mardian.
Didn't think I'd encounter "conspiracy" in regards to that teacher. Wonder how legitimately truthful his books are...I know very little about Watergate. I would wager there's a lot of "omission" in that book. Just a guess.
I am sorry for not being more upright about my sarcasm in this matter.
Sometimes tone doesn't come through well.
Of course it isn't justification for ethics. Lawyers such as that guy have no ethics at all. That's why I laughed at him taking a hard line on personal substance use.
The "oh well" was kinda that guy's response to his partner's death. Pretty gross.
BTW, Amy Klobuchar's husband teaches at that law school as well. He was one of the early "COVID ringers", with Klobuchar playing up the severity of COVID for the camera. By COVID ringers, I mean the people that publicly were said to have COVID early on to help advance the propaganda...celebrities mainly like Hanks, Kathy Griffin, and others.
I give myself a small measure of credit for getting out of law entirely, even though I got a full ride to law school. Besides, there's no need for another lawyer...why, hundreds are there to fill the gap where I was. :)
Ok, I gotta chime in with this one.
It gets weirder just doing a short amount of research too.
Basically, when I was in law school, I took criminal law with a professor of dubious ethics. He was actually a rather good teacher, but as a practicing attorney prior to teaching, his bread and butter was defending Colombian (and other) drug lords in American courts.
His defense of such a thing was that "if [he] didn't do it, there were hundreds of other lawyers ready to jump in his place."
And he's kinda right...somebody is gonna do it. He quit a long time ago to become a teacher, but perhaps it was because his office was firebombed in Miami and his partner was killed. Basically they couldn't get somebody off the hook. Oh well.
The long and short of morality.
Oh, and he was adamant about one thing...that you should stop smoking pot if you want to become a lawyer. LULZ
Now, on looking him up shit gets a bit weird. He was on the defense team during the Watergate trial for Robert Mardian, who was the Assistant Attorney General for Internal Security during President Nixon's first term. Mardian was also involved in the Pentagon Papers.
Not only that, the professor has written multiple books on Watergate, including one entitled The Watergate Conspiracy Conviction and Appeal of Assistant Attorney General Robert Mardian.
Didn't think I'd encounter "conspiracy" in regards to that teacher. Wonder how legitimately truthful his books are...I know very little about Watergate. I would wager there's a lot of "omission" in that book. Just a guess.
I am sorry for not being more upright about my sarcasm in this matter.
Sometimes tone doesn't come through well.
Of course it isn't justification for ethics. Lawyers such as that guy have no ethics at all. That's why I laughed at him taking a hard line on personal substance use.
The "oh well" was kinda that guy's response to his partner's death. Pretty gross.
BTW, Amy Klobuchar's husband teaches at that law school as well. He was one of the early "COVID ringers", with Klobuchar playing up the severity of COVID for the camera. By COVID ringers, I mean the people that publicly were said to have COVID early on to help advance the propaganda...celebrities mainly like Hanks, Kathy Griffin, and others.
I give myself a small measure of credit for getting out of law entirely, even though I got a full ride to law school. Besides, there's no need for another lawyer...why, hundreds are there to fill the gap where I was. :)