5.25.2004

Public Enemy (Defender) #1

I thought the defense attorneys who jumped at the chance to defend the D.C. snipers were questionable. But this guy has taken the sleazy stigma of being a criminal defense attorney to a new level. He's a truly world-class criminal defense attorney sleazeball.

The French lawyer known for defending Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie and
guerrilla Carlos the Jackal said on Saturday that Saddam Hussein’s nephew had chosen him to represent the deposed Iraqi president.


Klaus Barbie and "Carlos the Jackal" (who is "Carlos the Jackal" anyway?)... apparently he also he also has a self-destructive streak. Oh yeah, he lost,

Verges has taken on tough cases before. Barbie, known as the “butcher of
Lyon,” was jailed for life in 1987 for crimes against humanity in Nazi-occupied France. Carlos the Jackal, whose real name is Illich Ramirez Sanchez, is serving a life sentence in France for a string of deadly attacks in Europe in the 1970s and 1980s.


In all fairness, the job has to be done by someone, right. He's kind of like the middle school janitor who cleans the bathrooms, who you may look at with disgust, but who actually does everyone a great service by performing a necessary job no one else wants to do.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEYS REPRESENT NOTORIOUS DEFENDANTS FOR SEVERAL REASONS, INCLUDING FEEDING LARGE EGOS AND BECAUSE IT'S GOOD FOR BUSINESS. IN THE MINORITY IS THE BELIEF THAT EVEN SCUMBAGS HAVE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS. JOHNIE COCHRAN IS A GOOD EXAMPLE. THE OJ TRIAL HAS MADE HIM RICHER AND WELL-KNOWN. OJ, HOWEVER, IS NOT KLAUS BARBIE. THE BENEFITS ARE UNCLEAR IN THE LATTER CASE.