southcitymom
Well-Known Member
The defense attorney knew before he ever filed that piece of paperwork that it would be denied. I don't know why it should be the job of a defense attorney to delay and delay and delay with their pile of filings which they know are bogus in the first place. They have a job to do but the majority of them are so unethical it makes me ill. They twist and turn facts and come as close to lying as they dare. I agree there are worthless Prosecutors too but I was talking about this attorney and others just like him.
If an attorney files a bogus motion, they can be disbarred.
The law is an ever-changing organism and attorneys do not know what decisions the Courts are going to come to. There are precedents they can look at ,of course - but the law changes and gets changed every day in Courts just like this one.
Additionally, it is the duty of Vaughn's defense attorney to represent his client zealously. He would not be doing that (and he could be disbarred for not doing that) if he didn't try to fight the extradiction.
The motion that this defense attorney filed was not denied - in fact, the Judge is going to hear it later this month. Based on past precedents, it seems likely that it will be denied, but I promise you that no one really knows that.
If you don't like our system, that's fine. But I don't understand disliking people who are required to play by its rules.
It's not like Vaughn's attorneys tactics are buying his client the high life -he's languishing in jail with inmates who want to kill him. It's Vaughn's attorneys job to make sure the Prosecutor does his job - to include getting Vaughn to the right place to be tried.
I definitely understand that the slowness of our legal process can be frustrating, but I personally am grateful for it because it helps to ensure that things are done right and because I feel like it is the best system in the world.
Justice is a lot swifter in some countries where one person or a small group of people can decide in a shroud of darkness that someone is guilty and then chop off their head that night, but truly I'll take our way over that any minute of the day.