Public defenders are government employees, and are on salary. They do not get paid piecemeal per case that they work.
True. In my case, I was a juvenile in Long Beach in the 1980s. The court system was absolutely overwhelmed at the time. It’s the reason I was able to get them to accept me volunteering at the hospital for community service hours, because the road crews were all full at the time, and I started before I was sentenced.
People often begin a DUI program before they are sentenced as well. I believe it shows a good-faith effort on the part of the defendant to proactively improve his behavior, and may result it more lenient sentence.
Indeed.
You are correct, and I now see I did not word my statement appropriately. But remember, they are government employees in the lowest tier of government (city/county) where there are little to no control mechanisms.
Study how/who writes our statutes into bills then laws. It is not hard research.
Well no. You made a claim that I find doubtful. I asked for some kind of information to substantiate that. It is your responsibility to provide that since you made the initial claim. It is not my responsibility to do research and see if I come up with the same conclusion.
Wow, thanks. That’s all I really need to know.
Liberal to non Americans means exactly that, liberal. It doesn't mean Democratic or socialist. It means liberal. Look it up.
Stop listening.
Not really. The term "liberal" like so many words in the English language has come to mean a lot of different things over time. The full OED definition is worth examining, but is way too long to discuss here. An abridged definition, drawn from the Merriam-Webster dictionary online discusses the various uses of the term "liberal" (see further down below).
According to the Urban Dictionary, it simply means a lot. And what dictionary is more credible than that?A good American Dictionary (Merriam-Webster, Random House, etc.) like a good British dictionary will cover usage and pronunciation on both sides of the Atlantic and elsewhere in the anglophone world as well. That's true (even if my 50 year-old Random House desk-top dictionary is titled "Dictionary of the American Language"!
What my older American dictionaries don't have is pronunciation noted using IPA symbols. Instead they employ a separate, older phonemic system, or, in the case of newpapers and popular publications, a "respelling" system based on usage in commonly known words. See here: Pronunciation respelling for English - Wikipedia
FWIW I only became aware of the IPA back in the 1970s when I studied social anthropology and linguistics, and later when I worked nights teaching ESL (English as a Second Language) to immigrants. And, I never learned it well enough to make use of it. We Anglo North-Americans (US and Anglo Canada) are pretty isolated by geography. I love to travel but haven't had the money to leave this continent since I was a student.
Yes. Flipping the situation might help persuade some of the veracity of your statement: can we imagine the police not arresting someone who kills someone else?
Yes. It happens here in the US. But it's not as simple as the quote below:
Depending on the evidence immediately available at the scene that the police can observe, the officers can make that determination. This does not mean that you're cleared of any wrongdoing. They can always take you into custody later.
To be clear, your comment shores up my point. You are correct that PD's are on a preset salary. In this regard, they are as blue collar as the public servant who works at the sanitation department. It is the 'piecemeal' or per case work where defense attorneys can make an obscene amount of money. Why do you think there are so many 'ambulance chaser's?
Of course laws are largely written by the staff of politicians and not politicians themselves. And those staff members are probably mostly attorneys. But that isn’t the same as saying they are all written by defense attorneys and therefor have some kind of “out” written into them.
You are correct in your assertion about who does the mundane work of creating written law and that usually, politicians are only the 'face' of the law. But don't be naive about how they are written. My wife's education supports this, the professors word for word say this, regulators say the same, lobbyists prove this, lawmakers create this narrative, and my years of courtroom experience is real world proof.
All situations are different and sometimes you might have to cause serious injury to stop somebody. I don't know the details of the case about Tyson punching somebody on a plane but there have been cases of people who've had their noses broken and have kept fighting, there have been cases of people who have been shot and who have kept fighting, there have been cases of people who kept fighting while they were dying. So depending on the situation you might have to cause serious injury to incapacitate and stop your attacker. There is also the fact that just about anything can happen in a fight, it is possible to kill when your intent was only to stop your attacker but to leave them alive.
