Gabber JaW #95
"Think like we do. OR DIE!" You need a purpose. "I'm no activist, but I'll bitch with the best of 'em." Two TV shows you shouldn't see before surgery. American eats. "Rome had the recipe for pizza, but lost the recipe for cement." Wendy empathizes with roadkill. "You can't write a suicide note and then light your house on fire!" It's hard to speak up with a priest in your mouth.
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Yeah, John's right on this one. That's why all of the arabic designs are such elaborate geometrical designs instead of people. They believe you shouldn't make an image of Mohammed in any way.
When you think about the "graven images" , Christians are hypocrites for it. But else is new. Think about Catholics and Mary.
I looks like it's John's day...sort of.
A lawyer is forbidden from letting his client knowingly lie on the stand. If the client refuses and testifies anyway the lawyer is required to inform the judge in private that it is against the lawyer's wishes.
But Wendy is right as well. A lawyer can tell the jury that is client is "not guilty" since "innocence" means he didn't do it and "not guilty" means that the state couldn't prove he did it beyond a shadow of a doubt.
Just want to be clear...The only thing I was saying was that if the defendant tells the lawyer "I did it" behind closed doors, that the lawyer is not obligated to turn in the client. I was not talking about what is said on the stand (admittedly I have no idea about that) although any lawyer worth his weight in poop would not put his client on the stand if he knew the person committed the crime. Again, just talking about their private conversations.
Wendy
Yeah I agree with you. Sorry I wasn't being clear either...
It's even more of a gray (is it ok to say gray, or is color-neutral more p.c.?) area than rant says regarding perjury. If the client starts lying and the lawyer knows it, the lawyer must move to withdraw as counsel (in a private conference at sidebar). When the judge asks why, the lawyer cannot say that the client is lying b/c that's betraying a client confidence. The judge will deny the motion or declare a mistrial. If the motion is denied, the lawyer may not assist the client by directing his testimony. The lawyer basically must stand back and just let the client talk on his own.
On the other point, not only is the atty not obligated to turn the client in, he is forbidden from doing so - it would be a disbarrable offense. The only time a lawyer turns a client in is if the client is committing an ongoing crime or if the lawyer believes the client will committ a future crime which will damage the person or property of another.
Wow, lawyers are fun, huh? Keep kickin' out the shows at this fast clip - love the JaW!
First a word of advice to John about life after having you gallbladder removed (I hope it all went well)... stay away from eating too much fat. If you don't you'll regret it. My wife had this surgery a few years ago.
About fundamentalism.
There is an article in this month's Smithsonian titled "A Lesson in Hate" about Sayyid Qutb, the guy that is supposed to have been the major influence for bin Laden and al-Zawhiri. It seems to me that this guy was a frustrated homosexual that hates America because a drunken American woman made a pass at him on his trip to the US and he couldn't get what he considered a decent hair cut (I shit you not!). Read the article. He wrote an essay called "The America I Have Seen" where he claims that America began with bloody wars against the Indians, which he claimed were still underway in 1949. He was an educator that went to live in Colorado to learn our teaching techniques. I guess he didn't learn the technique that you should try to teach facts not wild ass fantasy. These are the "Fundamentalist truths" that have put our world in the wonderful state it is in today. I tell you, sometimes I do believe that religion is the root of all evil.
He ends his paper with "In summary, anything that requires a touch of elegance is not for the American, even haircuts! For there was not one instance in which I had a haircut there when I did not return home to even with my own hands what the barber had wrought". Sounds like a good reason to call Jihad on someone if you ask me. Not like you can win a war with a bad haircut!
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