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/6 This sort of thing is why defense lawyers generally don’t think too highly of the press. The press does some great reporting on the flaws of the system — when that’s the point of the story. But day to day the press is far too often the cops’ stenographers and legbreakers.
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Randy Lea
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Wouldn't it be fun if a journalist leaked out the names of all the anonymous sources upon retirement?
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GoodCitizen
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This is why I trust defense lawyers more than a DA.
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Popehat
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/7 This is not to be confused with my other familiar story about the time DA investigators searched my clients’ house. They arrived with a bunch of unassembled bankers’ boxes to carry off whatever they seized. But they seized maybe a few dozen pages of documents.
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Windypundit
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I think part of the problem is that defense lawyers aren't usually in a good position to feed stories to the press. Almost any coverage is bad for the client, and if a defense lawyer does learn something really juicy, it's probably better to hold it for the right moment than leak it to the press.
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Eastern Tony
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In a past life, I was a copy editor at a midsize U.S. regional A lot of reporters, including ones that saw themselves as brave mavericks, had internalized cop-speak to the point that I stopped explaining why we couldn't condemn the accused or use phrases like "officer-involved shooting"
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