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Scott Greenfield writes about a terrible wrong — by the attorney — in the New York case of Leiby Kletzky.
Levi Aron’s lawyer, Gerard Marrone, announced that he is withdrawing from the Aron defense.
It’s not Marrone’s withdrawal from the case that I find so disconcerting: it’s the way in which he withdrew.
I’m sure my experience as a child in a home with multiple siblings is not unique. When I was a kid, one or the other of us not infrequently threatened to “tell” on one or more of the other kids in the family for some real or perceived “sin.”
Equally as often, this statement set off a race, as each of us rushed to be the first to “tell” mom or dad “what happened.” Of course, the telling and the what happened did not always exactly match up — at least partly depending upon who made it to mom and dad first. And the reason for the race? Sometimes it seemed that whoever got their story out first had the upper hand; the other — or others — were thrown on the defensive. (“Nu-uh!”)
A similar thing happens when one is charged with a crime and one’s “siblings” — in this case, “other persons accused of crimes” — are looking for their own advantages.
And the prosecutor’s case needs a little boost.
I haven’t written much about the criminal law case that’s been scintillating — and then enraging — others around the country, the Casey Anthony case.
In the beginning, it was a combination of being too busy for that, and recognizing that whatever I saw on the news was likely to be sensationalized and full of erroneous and perhaps even deliberately misleading information.
As time went on, it became clear to me that there was another reason not to watch: ancient Rome was never one of my favorite “civilizations” and the Colosseum most likely would have disgusted me.
This July 4, as we continue to celebrate the birth of our Nation long after the death of the document that created it — and as I sit down to write a few possibly patently offensive statements about that — I find it particularly appropriate that Tennessee has decided to go after one of the two remaining Amendments in the Bill of Rights that the United States Supreme Court has not yet seen fit to officially obliterate.
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