. . . is a threat to justice everywhere. I used to be a public defender in Texas. Now, I'm a public defender in Washington. Despite what you may have heard about Texas justice, there's just as much injustice here as there was there. And so I fight. And I rant. About justice, injustice, and life in general. (*Despite the photographic evidence below, I am not Veronica Mars. She is, in fact, smarter than me.)
posted by 123txpublicdefender123 at 2:00 PM
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3 Comments:
Happens all the time here. And I totally agree with you!
Funny that David said that because in my experience, it was near impossible to get a child defendant punished at all! I prosecuted a teenager for his fourth act of pedophelia and could not get the judge to even send him to juvie. Maybe somewhere between over charging in Texas and under-charging in the Bronx, there is a happy medium.
No kid in Texas would ever get to see a judge on a fourth act of pedophilia. He'd have long been sent to the Texas Youth commission on a double digit sentence-probably on the second go 'round.
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