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Originally Posted by fw102807
I have often wondered how lawyers who defend serious criminals and know they are guilty can sleep at night. It has to be very hard to watch a murderer go free because you are good at your job.
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I did work for prisoners at the Minnesota Correctional Facility -- Stillwater while a student at the U of MN Law School. I remember being given a severe scolding by a judge because I was putting in the papers of a name change of a particularly notorious inmate. I even had a hard time meeting the man at Stillwater prison. Hard to hide my loathing of him. But the law did give him the right to change his name and his victim(s) would have been notified of the name change.
I did become a law librarian though because of this kind of stuff. Some of the inmates were just people who had made bad mistakes.
I had contact with about 40 of these inmates in some form or another as a student attorney and then as a supervisor of other student attorneys. Going into the MN prisons was also an experience. I was very glad when those doors opened on the way out. We had to meet every new prisoner who had a Legal Assistance to Minnesota Prisoners (LAMP) case in person. Or the student attorney did.
So much of the practice of law is very tedious. And so many people do not like lawyers.
Incidentally the Younger brothers from the Northfield MN bank robbery started the prison newspaper for the Stillwater prison. These are the Younger brothers who rode with the James brothers.