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I suppose by now I should realize that one reason everyone hates lawyers is that they think them largely unnecessary. Like doctors and pilots. I mean, anyone can remove their own appendix or fly themselves across the country, right? And lots of people — at least 50 to 60% of U.S. adults — can read. So who needs lawyers when they can read the law for themselves?
Thankfully, Ray McEdward of Madera provides a shining example that being able to read does not a lawyer make.
I did not want to write this post. Mirriam finally made me do it. She didn’t twist my arm or anything, although I suspect if she were in California and she wanted to, I might let her.
No, she added her voice to that of several others who have written about Arizona’s new law written by idiots to stop the unstoppable: immigration.
Legal or not, immigration is unstoppable. It’s how almost all of us got here.
And, if you really think about it, almost none of us got here legally. At least, not if you’re white.
Anyone who looks will notice that my “blog roll,” containing links to the blogs of other attorneys (and some non-attorneys) shows a dearth of prosecutor blogs. It’s not exactly that I’m not a fan of prosecutors, although I won’t deny there’s some prejudice involved. My own experiences with — and stories I hear from local attorneys concerning — prosecutors causes a knee jerk reaction in me that automatically makes me suspect them.
But I’m not a fan of knee jerk reactions: I work through it. There are prosecutors — admittedly few in number — with whom I’ve had direct contact whom I’ve found to be quite honorable and whom I’d love to count among my short list of close friends, if the opportunity to do so ever arose.
One I have never had direct contact with is prosecutor Mark Pryor of D.A. Confidential. Yet, like criminal defense attorney Jamison Koehler, I am (mostly!) reassured by what I read on Mark’s blog.
The Law Office of Rick Horowitz provides criminal defense services
in Fresno, Tulare, Kings, Kern, Madera and Merced Counties.