tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862751130582500985.post3475479914673219099..comments2023-05-20T02:59:34.668-05:00Comments on No, You're Hyperbolic: Alton Logan, Dale Coventry, and Jamie Kunz: Not Surprisingly, I Was Incorrectjumcohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15753433888238396781noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862751130582500985.post-30059249958047884142008-11-23T00:05:00.000-06:002008-11-23T00:05:00.000-06:00We are not talking about a lawyer's duty under the...We are not talking about a lawyer's duty under the civil or criminal codes. We are talking about justice. The physician who steps over the dying person is not liable; sure. He's just despicable, and that's the point. And systems do not crash when they are violated in rare cases involving conscience, etc. They crash when they lose their legitimacy because adherence to them produces offensive Tony Waltershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03883880092140808832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862751130582500985.post-80453391073623789262008-11-22T17:21:00.000-06:002008-11-22T17:21:00.000-06:00I meant that "it appears Wilson did NOT want to te...I meant that "it appears Wilson did NOT want to testify."Pericleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06945738688567266186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862751130582500985.post-74685931180810425492008-11-22T17:20:00.000-06:002008-11-22T17:20:00.000-06:00Jumco is right. The state could (and arguably sho...Jumco is right. The state could (and arguably should) have offered Wilson immunity in exchange for the confession. The problem is it appears Wilson did want to testify, and thus did not authorize, or if asked would not have authorized, his lawyers to make such a deal. And so, the question is: How does a lawyer reveal client confidences without the authority of the client. Jumco identifies Pericleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06945738688567266186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862751130582500985.post-73441031644775282412008-11-22T11:14:00.000-06:002008-11-22T11:14:00.000-06:00The lawyers are not responsible for the state of t...The lawyers are not responsible for the state of the justice system, only for their role in administering it. Their choice was between freeing an innocent person and identifying a guilty one. To say that the guilty person should be protected because he had other problems, or because of a principled objection to the death penalty, is to obscure the basic injustice, and to make Alton Logan an Tony Waltershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03883880092140808832noreply@blogger.com