::Note: At the end of the trial the judge released us to talk about specific events that occurred during the trial. As such this post is acceptable. I just wasn't allowed to discuss the case during the trial.::
Don't steal. It's one of the Ten Commandments. Seriously, don't do it. That being said, if you're going to steal, don't do so right in front of a video camera.
The attorney was objecting to everything. She repeatedly made nigh trivial points and split hairs in an attempt to undermine witness credibility. She had seen the video. She knew he was guilty.
How does one rectify that mentally? How do you create that disconnect between what you know to be true and what you have to do? I realize that ultimately she wasn't trying to prove his innocence, but only to create a whole in the prosecution's case. Even still, I don't understand.
At the same time, isn't that how each of us behaves every day? Whatever your value system, you almost assuredly have some right/wrong paradigm. Unless you are Charlie Sheen-level "winning," you at some point do something that you have to place into the "wrong" column. After all, you're only human. No one is perfect. We all act outside of accordance with our beliefs sometimes. Except, of course, for Jesus, which is exactly what made him the perfect sacrifice for us.
::Note: At the end of the trial the judge released us to talk about specific events that occurred during the trial. As such this post is acceptable. I just wasn't allowed to discuss the case during the trial.::
Don't steal. It's one of the Ten Commandments. Seriously, don't do it. That being said, if you're going to steal, don't do so right in front of a video camera.
The attorney was objecting to everything. She repeatedly made nigh trivial points and split hairs in an attempt to undermine witness credibility. She had seen the video. She knew he was guilty.
How does one rectify that mentally? How do you create that disconnect between what you know to be true and what you have to do? I realize that ultimately she wasn't trying to prove his innocence, but only to create a whole in the prosecution's case. Even still, I don't understand.
At the same time, isn't that how each of us behaves every day? Whatever your value system, you almost assuredly have some right/wrong paradigm. Unless you are Charlie Sheen-level "winning," you at some point do something that you have to place into the "wrong" column. After all, you're only human. No one is perfect. We all act outside of accordance with our beliefs sometimes. Except, of course, for Jesus, which is exactly what made him the perfect sacrifice for us.
Voir Dire, II: Defending the Guilty
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