re: Joel Guy jr 7 guilty verdicts on killing and dismembering his parents.

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It's what people do to people when they are still alive that can be tougher to wrap your head around.

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For me it's the cases where people should know better. You take a 19 year old kid who grew up in the ghetto or the trailer park getting arrested for murder, robbery or drugs. In almost all of those cases, the client is largely a product of his environment. The crimes may be horrible, but you can rationalize why they occurred.

Then I would do Family Court cases where the wife is falsely accusing the husband of molestation to get more child support or leverage for a better property settlement. Or the husband who insists you ask a sobbing wife in a deposition if her 2nd term miscarriage was actually an abortion, knowing that it wasn't. You can't rationalize that kind of evil. I couldn't get that shite out of my head.