I guess the title pretty much says it all, doesn't it? I mean, it's nothing we don't already know, right? We know that if this had been some working-class family, no one would have wasted time with kid gloves. They'd be clapped into prison and likely given a death sentence, provided their public defender couldn't get a plea deal.
But this WASN'T a working-class family with a public defender. This was a wealthy, important couple who could afford the most powerful lawyer in the state: Hal Haddon, a personal friend of then-president Bill Clinton and a man who exemplifies the fact that a defense lawyer's duty is to his client, not the truth. THIS is what the DA's office had to contend with. A DA's office that hadn't taken a case to trial in TEN YEARS AND was business partners with Haddon, to boot. Who would you bet on?
There are some people here and there who are brazen enough to say that money had nothing to do with what happened to this case. Quite frankly, that's a JOKE, and a BAD one. So, on the off-chance that said people are reading this, there's something I think you should know about Mr. Haddon that might take some of his "hero" glow off.
Do you know what the motto of Haddon's law firm is? "Reasonable doubt for a reasonable fee".
And they are quite open about this! It is posted in the conference room and on the flag by the backyard pool at the office. (I'll let the notion of a law office with a freaking SWIMMING POOL in the backyard sink in a minute!)
But this WASN'T a working-class family with a public defender. This was a wealthy, important couple who could afford the most powerful lawyer in the state: Hal Haddon, a personal friend of then-president Bill Clinton and a man who exemplifies the fact that a defense lawyer's duty is to his client, not the truth. THIS is what the DA's office had to contend with. A DA's office that hadn't taken a case to trial in TEN YEARS AND was business partners with Haddon, to boot. Who would you bet on?
There are some people here and there who are brazen enough to say that money had nothing to do with what happened to this case. Quite frankly, that's a JOKE, and a BAD one. So, on the off-chance that said people are reading this, there's something I think you should know about Mr. Haddon that might take some of his "hero" glow off.
Do you know what the motto of Haddon's law firm is? "Reasonable doubt for a reasonable fee".
And they are quite open about this! It is posted in the conference room and on the flag by the backyard pool at the office. (I'll let the notion of a law office with a freaking SWIMMING POOL in the backyard sink in a minute!)