Garbage In, Garbage Out
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010I started to call this post “The Accidental Attorney,” but a recent post uses a similar title. Besides, I don’t want to give the impression that everything in my life has been a big accident, although I admit to frequently wondering if I shouldn’t have become a psychologist. In truth it is an accident that I became an attorney. There’s no denying that fact. But it is no accident at all that I became a criminal defense attorney. That was a conscious decision.
The decision I made to become a criminal defense attorney came as a reaction to the problems of complexity, simplicity, and the quest for perfection. Time and space limitations mean I’m likely to make this a two-part post. This first part will talk about my initial steps towards becoming a criminal defense attorney. The second part, which I hope to write tomorrow (!), will focus on the conceptual issues of complexity, simplicity, and the quest for perfection.
