Ethics of defending guilty clients

Article Abstract:

The trial of OJ Simpson raises important questions of the moral and ethical duties and limits lawyers face in an adversarial trial system. Lawyers with guilty clients must in such a situation fight against revelation of the truth, with no apparent moral limits. They may not, however, perjure or aid their client in doing so. In this case, if Simpson is indeed guilty the best defense move is probably to keep him off the witness stand, if only to avoid further damage and prepare for plea bargaining after a hung jury.

Analysis, Cases, Ethical aspects, Legal ethics, Practice of law, Simpson, O.J., Attorney and client

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TV crime news plays with our heads

Article Abstract:

Television news has largely created the current public fear of crime in pursuit of better ratings and partly as a result of some current public tendencies in that direction. Despite the actual declines in violent crime against people and property, coverage of it has quadrupled since 1990 even discounting coverage of the O.J. Simpson case. As a mini-boom of young people reach prime criminal age over the next few years it will feed this tv hype, possibly leading to far more radical proposals in Congress.

Social aspects, Television broadcasting of news, Television news, Crime in television, Television crime

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