Why I do it
Many people like to ask me, or make fun of me, because I work for the Miami-Dade Public Defenders office. Why do you work your hardest to make sure "guilty" people go free. You know what? I do it because James Madison wanted it so. The Framers of the Constitution made it my job. All defendants in criminal trials are guaranteed an attorney. All must be informed of their constitutional rights before their statements can be used against them in court. And why? Because the state must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he is guilty. That is the highest standard, and Madison & Co. wrote it that way. Without reasonable doubt, tyranny takes over. If our country and its justice system is willing to allow a guilty man go free so that the constitution is upheld, then tyranny is held in abeyance and we can sleep well in the knowledge that an innocent man will always go free.
posted by George at 9:53:00 PM
2 Comments:
well said mister. I honestly never thought of it that way. I admire you for all you do and what you stand for.
"...It is not so many years since our present King's father. . . was killed on a kind of stage, outside the walls of this very building. And, in time, his murderers were condemned and themselves executed. But. . . were they condemned without being heard? They were not. In spite of the certainty of their guilt and the horrid weight of their cowardly crimes, they were allowed the due process of law. But what is suggested before this House. . . is that we condemn that murdered king's second son with less shrift than was given to his killers. My lord, let us have justice. When the time arrives for our good and present king to be taken from us, let then his Catholic brother be impeached in this House in the normal way. And if he be found wanting, then let his head be chopped off at the neck. . . if the House feel that is what he merits." ~The Libertine
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