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Related: About this forumI teach my 1Ls on Day 2 of law school that "I want my lawyer" is the most important phrase in law.
SupersedingHat Retweeted:Hes facing serious accusations. Hed be an idiot NOT to hire a lawyer right now. I teach my 1Ls on Day 2 of law school that I want my lawyer is the most important phrase in law. Yes, this isnt crim, but same logic applies. What do we call a lawyers who is his own client?
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I teach my 1Ls on Day 2 of law school that "I want my lawyer" is the most important phrase in law. (Original Post)
mahatmakanejeeves
Sep 2018
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"Violence is a phase, not a state. People age into and age out of bad behavior."
mahatmakanejeeves
Sep 2018
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saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)1. Mr. Pfaff come use someone
to edit his tweets for grammar. Otherwise, he sounds very uneducated or russian, imo.
mahatmakanejeeves
(61,437 posts)2. "Violence is a phase, not a state. People age into and age out of bad behavior."
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John Pfaff
@JohnFPfaff
Professor, Fordham Law School. Prisons and criminal justice quant. I'm not contrarian--the data is. Author of Locked In, now available!
Brooklyn, NY
lockedinbook.net
Joined March 2011
Absolutely not. Violence is a phase, not a state. People age into and age out of bad behavior. Dismissing people as bad guys is easy, but thats an attitude we had to overcome to move past our mass punishment era that just writes ppl off.
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Does his continuing adamant denial impact your position? His at least tacit participation in the smear campaign gearing up against Dr. Ford concerns me as well. I notice he did nothing to discourage the dogs of war.
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Absolutelylike I said, we can and SHOULD judge him by how he handles this now. That tells us abt the now, and is def highly relevant.
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He is a man raised with deep privilege and it appears that privilege has allowed him in many ways to avoid consequences of his actions. That permeates his writing and his life. I agree that is very relevant to his "now."
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It is difficult, I admit, to give Kavanaugh, a man whose opinions show such disdain for those without his advantages the same consideration I try to give to kids locked up by the unjust system he so strongly supports. But I will try.
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