violentsalvation: That is nearly the opposite of what his lawyer said.

This. I had to read exactly one paragraph of the FA to realize the headline completely false. Just try. Just try a little.

Paterno should call him and say, "Jerry, make a full and detailed confession, then plead guilty. If you have any honor left in that pervert mind of yours."

scottydoesntknow: But, but, but he said in the interview that he was not sexually attracted to underage boys. Sexually attracted, you know, he enjoys young people. He loves to be around them. But no, he's not sexually attracted to young boys.

IANAL, but I'm pretty sure he's 100% innocent off that statement alone.

Sometimes using "IANAL" is just... not right.

What kind of lawyer would willingly defend a guilty child molester?

LegacyDL: What kind of lawyer would willingly defend a guilty child molester?

One who's a child molester himself.

He might not be much of a lawyer, but I am a big fan of him for him letting that maggot crucify himself.

The most we can only hope for is to get you buried in secrecy so your grave don't get violated.

/not obscure here

LegacyDL: What kind of lawyer would willingly defend a guilty child molester?

As hell-bent as Sandusky seems to be on convicting himself, he's still innocent in the view of the law until proven or pled guilty, and thus he has the right to a defense. That said, his lawyer is proving to be a tool, and I wonder if Amendola is the only private defense attorney willing to take the case. Right now, it appears Sandusky would have been better off asking for a public defender, or just pleading guilty and begging for segregation.

LegacyDL: What kind of lawyer would willingly defend a guilty child molester?

Maybe he's not guilty. Never thought of that, did you?

FarkinHostile: He might not be much of a lawyer, but I am a big fan of him for him letting that maggot crucify himself.

He's a Jedi-level troll. He hates him as much as the rest of the world. Kind of like in that one movie wit Brad Pitt where they're kids in Hell's Kitchen

Ah, the first knuckleball has been thrown for mistrial.

HaywoodJablonski: FarkinHostile: He might not be much of a lawyer, but I am a big fan of him for him letting that maggot crucify himself.

He's a Jedi-level troll. He hates him as much as the rest of the world. Kind of like in that one movie wit Brad Pitt where they're kids in Hell's Kitchen

Sleepers

LegacyDL: What kind of lawyer would willingly defend a guilty child molester?

A paid one.

EdNortonsTwin: Ah, the first knuckleball has been thrown for mistrial.

That's what I'm thinking. Might be aiming to have it thrown out on appeal because of the media circus surrounding it.

Ken at Popehat: You can spin the comment as out of context and not actually throwing his client under the bus. It would still be a damn-fool thing that a competent defense attorney would not say -- would it would not be as bad.

But that would ignore the fact that this is not a competent defense attorney. This is an attorney who put his client on the phone with Bob Costas for a disastrous interview that will be exhibit 1 in any prosecution, while he sat by and acted creepy. His comments this time should be read in the context of his entire course of conduct, which appears, quite frankly, to be conduct of a freak using the opportunity to promote sex with younguns.

//criminal defense attorney here
/appalled by this lawyer

Sandusky's strategy:

(1) Get convicted.
(2) Appeal on grounds of ineffective assistance of counsel.
(3) Stay sentencing pending appeal.
(4) Overturn conviction.
(5) New trial.
(6) Repeat as necessary for whatever is left of his pathetic life.

Ta-da!

/a little bit analogous to what I tell my clients as a tax lawyer: "have a shiatty business, make bad investments and that way you won't have to pay much tax."

Charles Martel: [weedthepeople.files.wordpress.com image 350x287]

LegacyDL: What kind of lawyer would willingly defend a guilty child molester?

Maybe he's not guilty. Never thought of that, did you?



Unfortunately for Sandusky, the case won't be tried in Florida. So, the "hurr durr jury" defense will not be in play.

LegacyDL: What kind of lawyer would willingly defend a guilty child molester?

meat0918: What a shiatty lawyer. How the hell could you not tell you client to get the fark off the phone when you're sitting right there!

I've said it before, but he was probably too busy porkin' teens his own self.

To be fair those kids were asking for it

LegacyDL: What kind of lawyer would willingly defend a guilty child molester?



A criminal lawyer. Not a criminal lawyer, a criminal layer.

That is not a very well-written article.

Shocking, because when I think "top-notch news organization," I think ESPN.

He probably just got a flat fee or something, if he was being paid hourly (what, $600?), he'd be singing a different tune.

Yanks_RSJ: [26.media.tumblr.com image 500x286]

Sorry, but in a case like this, he's going to want the very best:

Also, why don't people remember this handy phrase:

"No comment."


I guess everybody's so determined to get their 15 minutes, they just gotta keep yapping.

Super Chronic: /a little bit analogous to what I tell my clients as a tax lawyer...

You're a lawyer? With a Fark handle like yours I had you pegged for a pot grower. ;)

I want to tell you all a story 'bout a Happy Valley pedos life
He had a teenage habit that uppended Happy Valley shower life.
His hens came home to roost in ninety eight but didn't even stop his play
He said, "I promise I'll stop raping boys in Happy Valley. Now. today "

The cops wrote, "Yo Sandunsky, you're farking these boy toys way too young
It's reported you've been soaping and a-fillin' 'round young boy butt full of cum
And we don't believe you ought to be all balls deep in this little boy's heinie"
It was signed by investigators, Happy Valley State PD.

Well, it happened that DA Gricar. was into pedo porn and liked bribes too
Cops were sure surprised when Ol' Ray Gricar pressed no charges, like a tool.
And as he threw out all the charges, I still recall the words like a bad dream
He said, "Move along, nothing to see he's from the Happy Vally football team.."

Well, there's Joe Paterno sittin' there and several times he didnt even know at all
That old faker sure knows to hide assets before he takes a fall.
And Mr. Joe Pa, can you tell us why your protege friend had to quit your team?
And shouldn't Spanier know showering with boys was more than it would seem?
Well, Mr. Gricar couldn't be here 'cause he disappeared before it got this big
And if you smell for truth round PSU you'll find that most of its been hid.
Yet they have the nerve to tell me the football program's clean and fit.
Well, this is just a little Peyton Place and you're all Happy Valley hypocrites

No I wouldn't put you on because it really did, it happened just this way
But now the feds are on this Happy Valley creepy fray.
So please Obama sock it to the Happer Valley pedo way.

Smelly Pirate Hooker: That is not a very well-written article.

Shocking, because when I think "top-notch news organization," I think ESPN.

personally i like their extended coverage and detailed analysis of flag football this morning...what the fark was that shiat?

joepa and penn state are probably raising money as we speak to pay sandusky off so that he will go the fark away and not reveal just how much penn state and joepa knew and how long ago they knew.

StoneColdAtheist: Super Chronic: /a little bit analogous to what I tell my clients as a tax lawyer...

You're a lawyer? With a Fark handle like yours I had you pegged for a pot grower. ;)

Story behind the handle: was a fan of an NBA team called the Super Sonics, back before the NBA sucked. Some friends and I called them the "Chronics" when they underachieved, mostly based on an Ice Cube song mentioning the team, I think (rhyming it with the term for marijuana, of course. So, only indirectly pot related; I didn't even think of it that way... I thought of it more like "this team is a bunch of chronic underachievers." I should probably think about changing the name. Especially since the NBA sucks.

This is not to say I never partook of the green stuff.

Sanduskyed In The Shower: To be fair those kids were asking for it

I applaud the moxy of a man creating a TF Handle just to get a month or two of topical humor out of it.

LegacyDL: What kind of lawyer would willingly defend a guilty child molester?

We have an adversarial system. As a result, he must be afforded the right to defend himself.

1. He isn't guilty until he either pleads guilty or is found guilty.
2. No matter your crime, if we do not follow our own laws with respect to our justice system then the entire system is a sham. You can't be a nation of laws and arbitrarily choose not to follow those laws.
3. Since we are a nation on law, he must have a defence. If we do not provide him a defence then he can not be found guilty. No lawyer = he goes free.

4. Even if he were to admit his guilt to the lawyer, and planned to plead guilty, the lawyer has the moral responsibility to represent his client and ensure that his rights are protected.

Number 4 is important because should(must) only seek punishment that is codified and Constitutional. To intentionally do anything in excess of what is legally prescribed is a heinous violation committed against our society.

The concept that someone would seek extrajudicial punishment is disgusting. The type of people who would do such things are dangerously close to being little better than animals for they abandon reason by committing an act that by definition places them outside of civil society.

Maybe that was too much...

The simple answer to how you defend someone you find to be disturbing? You ensure that they are afforded a fair trial and due process.

Why do you end up having to defend them even when you don't like them? Because the system is adversarial. The concept is that if both sides fight hard and fair, the correct decision will have been reached.

So you defend, because if what the prosecution says is true, then the expectation is that the prosecution will win. If they lose, then in the eyes of society, the man was NOT guilty.

I'm not an advocate for suicide. Far from it, I find every life inherently valuable, but when something like this happens, and people know its happening, to the people who have knowledge of it and did nothing, well I don't know how you could wake up on the morning and look at yourself in the mirror and not slit your wrists.

/run on sentence FTW!

Remember folks, the purpose of a defense lawyer is not to have their client found not guilty. Their purpose is to fully explain the legal process so that the accused knows what exactly s/he is accused of, what penalties the crime incurs, and what kinds of options are available to proceed. You know, to give him due process and equal protection under the law.

violentsalvation: That is nearly the opposite of what his lawyer said.

Darbus: Sleepers

watched that last weekend. A really underrated movie.

Begoggle: Yanks_RSJ: [26.media.tumblr.com image 500x286]

Sorry, but in a case like this, he's going to want the very best:

Why should you go to jail for a crime someone else noticed? (slams book shut)