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> If a defense attorney did something similar, Williams said, “I guarantee you this DA would try to prosecute that defense attorney.” Who watches the watchers?
by elipsey 9y ago
> If a defense attorney did something similar, Williams said, “I guarantee you this DA would try to prosecute that defense attorney.”
Who watches the watchers?
We know now that we need to look for something like a notary stamp and judge signature on a subpeona, but we will never be as sophisticated in this domain as the DA's office, so they can probably easily trick us in other ways. The lesson I am inclined to take from this is to avoid interacting with a DA without a lawyer, similar to an investigator or a "curious" or "friendly" police officer.
- wfo 9y agoThe DA office can always just lie in person, mislead people (who cares if there's an official stamp; how many regular people know literally anything about the law?). At the end of the day if a prosecutor says "obey or you will be jailed" people will obey. If they did it to me and I couldn't afford a lawyer you bet I'd obey too. The only remedy is to seriously punish prosecutors who commit fraud like these ones are. Prosecutorial misconduct needs to be taken much more seriously and be much easier to convict on, since it's a national epidemic. Either that or the bar association needs to start taking their responsibilities seriously and ban people who do this from ever practicing law again.