In another milieu Giuliani would have been one of the Mafiosi he put in jail.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

He has all the markers of a thug.


Carry on...

[Siwsan]

1. I was just thinking, he's now defending the kind of people he once worked to convict.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. Lots of lawyers cut their teeth as prosecutors of some kind.

[Siwsan]

3. True

And how many of them go on to work as defense attorneys to continue to quest for justice, or because it's more financially viable?

Don't get me wrong - I know there is a need for good, ethical defense attorneys, and they have my utmost respect. But I don't think what Giuliani is doing has anything to do with justice. Is it for $$, some sort of sketchy quid pro quo, or wasted, one sided loyalty to trump*? What ever the case, it's going to tarnish what was left of his reputation.

(Sorry, I was incoherent, when I first typed this so I had to edit. Blame the Shingles I'm attempting to move past!)

[DemocratSinceBirth]

4. I have friends who are criminal defense lawyers who never took the prosecutor first route.

Their motivation was protecting the underdog.

[Siwsan]

5. I am endlessly fascinated by the legal system and the people who work in it

I probably missed my calling. If could do it all over again, that's the route I would have taken, when I was in the military.

I think some of the hardest working, and maybe most underappreciated people, are those who go into public defense.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

6. My largest regret is going to grad school instead of law school.

When I was in grad school at FSU my buddy was taking some graduate level courses until he could take the Bar exam again which he failed. He wanted to go into practice with me if I got a JD.