tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2248881149749925934.post2623719201112015536..comments2024-01-02T10:09:58.744-08:00Comments on Preaching to the choir: You can't take it backShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12429147325673256508noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2248881149749925934.post-70267789730208756822010-02-23T20:48:08.435-08:002010-02-23T20:48:08.435-08:00Nance, you're right it really might not have m...Nance, you're right it really might not have much effect. He didn't say anything the rest of us weren't thinking anyway. Theoretically, his statement that she knows she did it and is sorry could be considered an agent admission, but most prosecutors probably wouldn't go there.<br /><br />It's the professional breach that irked me. I would never speak publicly about my client like that without being really, really sure it was useful to the case. This whole thing just happened a little over a week ago. He can't possibly have already developed any sort of trial strategy.Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12429147325673256508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2248881149749925934.post-86104215634329315082010-02-23T17:29:51.062-08:002010-02-23T17:29:51.062-08:00This is why I want to just remain in the backgroun...This is why I want to just remain in the background conducting research that no one knows I did. But it is so true that you can't take it back.Kylienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2248881149749925934.post-90805997676097076292010-02-23T14:35:22.139-08:002010-02-23T14:35:22.139-08:00I imagine that the lure of the camera and the ligh...I imagine that the lure of the camera and the lights (and the fleeting fame) can be very seductive. That moment of intensely exciting attention is likely very powerful. But you're so right that it just isn't about "you" at all; the defense of the client and that sacred relationship has to be uppermost. <br /><br />I have a question, though: How much does the attorney's "estimation" of his client's mental state, tossed off like a remark in that way, really matter? He's not a qualified psychiatrist, obviously, and so he cannot really speak to her clinical mental state. Do his sort of off the record remarks really mean anything from a legal standpoint in the way that they can be used against her, really? Or is it just a colossal breach of professionalism more than anything else (egregious enough, but not legally damning)?Nancehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17627214346956206283noreply@blogger.com