The Lethal and Racist Dishonesty of the Defense Bar
In the post immediately preceding this one, Amber Westbrook wrote of “Another Violent Felon Released from Prison Early to Commit More Crimes.” The piece I bring you now is in the same vein but much worse. It’s from the pro-criminal justice “reform” Washington Post. Its title is, “Released early after a murder conviction, D.C. man is charged in new homicide.” It’s yet another story of dishonest lawyers, both white, one an advocate and one a judge, who worked hand-in-hand to secure the early release of a violent thug in the prime of his criminal life. The released convict, Darrell Moore, went on to commit another murder a scant nine months later, by shooting his victim six times in the chest. The evidence suggests that the victim was black, as Moore’s first victim was.
What we have here is the nauseating combination of the poisons that have been taking over our criminal justice system — strutting elitist attitudes and shameless lying masquerading as compassion. But it’s not compassion. It’s the opposite. It starts with self-congratulatory virtue-signalling by elite-type lawyers (the great majority of whom are, as in this case, white). The next step is pro bono representation of a violent hooligan to obtain early release, thus to shortcut his supposed accountability for an earlier brutal crime. It proceeds by patently false representations about his New Life and Now Peaceable Character. The final chapter is another black man in the morgue. The white lawyers who made it all possible have — you guessed it — no comment.
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