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This article was written by a person who is so proud to be a prosecutor that he mentions three ways he was a prosecutor in his 26-word bio at the end. So his th
by public_defender 4y ago
This article was written by a person who is so proud to be a prosecutor that he mentions three ways he was a prosecutor in his 26-word bio at the end. So his thesis is... that Oregon should prosecute more people. At least he's consistent.
- dragonwriter 4y agoActually, it seems like he mentions two ways three times (an elected district attorney is a local prosecutor.)
- public_defender 4y agoHe is trying to say that he was an Assistant US Attorney (federal prosecutor), an Assistant District Attorney (local prosecutor), and that he held the top DA job somewhere (elected DA). It's really quite a brag.
- Bostonian 4y agoI don't think we should discount what he says because he's a prosecutor or what you have to say because your moniker is "public_defender".
- public_defender 4y agoNo, of course not. I think the sibling comments give lots of clear reasons to discount the author (and to credit him). I only wanted to point out that the piece seems very one-sided. And of course I am one of nature's counterbalances to unfair prosecutor behavior, so I was summoned. I'm joking a little, but to be completely serious, if I wrote an article like this, it would be rightly discounted by everyone unless I explained my perspective sufficiently to offset the bias which is assumed to travel with my role. This is uniquely true for criminal lawyers because we are known professionally for advocating only one side of causes, and it's uniquely pernicious for prosecutors because, though they too are one-sided in their advocacy, they benefit from a mis-assumption that they seek fairness or consider all sides of issues like this.