{"id":1444,"date":"2020-06-24T14:13:12","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T21:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=1444"},"modified":"2020-06-24T14:46:17","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T21:46:17","slug":"how-the-legal-profession-earns-the-publics-contempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=1444","title":{"rendered":"How The Legal Profession Earns the Public’s Contempt"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police, who take a relentless battering from Those Who Are High-Minded\u00a0 —\u00a0 especially lawyers (and criminal defense lawyers in particular)\u00a0 —\u00a0 are trusted more than twice as much by the public<\/a> as their finger-waving critics.\u00a0 But it’s not lawyers’ hubris or hypocrisy that most earns them the the public’s distrust.\u00a0 It’s spectacles like this.<\/p>\n

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This is today’s headline from Law.com:\u00a0 Supporters of Attorney Accused in Molotov Cocktail Case Speak Out During Arraignment<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here’s how the story<\/a> starts:<\/p>\n

Colinford Mattis, a lawyer accused of helping throw a Molotov cocktail at an unoccupied New York City Police Department vehicle in Brooklyn during protests against police brutality, pleaded not guilty to a seven-count indictment during a short arraignment Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Because of the coronavirus pandemic, the hearing for Mattis was held by conference call, which was briefly interrupted by enthusiastic supporters.<\/p>\n

\u201cLove you, Colin,\u201d one voice called out as the hearing began.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re here for you, bro \u2026 the whole squad\u2019s here,\u201d other voices said.<\/p>\n

Mattis\u2019 attorney Sabrina Shroff reminded the group that prosecutors were on the line just before the court reporter announced that anyone who spoke had to identify themselves….<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The article continues:<\/p>\n

Over the sound of dozens of beeps as call participants hung up, Mattis\u2019 supporters took the opportunity to speak without reprimand from the court reporter.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s more than 500 people on this call for you, Colin,\u201d one said.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re doing great, Sabrina, keep it up girl,\u201d another said.<\/p>\n

One voice described the case as an example of \u201ctrue systemic racism.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou got the whole country behind you, man,\u201d another said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If a single one of those 500 lawyers or lawyer-affiliated people expressed even slight misgivings about a big firm associate’s chucking a Molotov cocktail at a police cruiser, the article does not mention it.<\/p>\n

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