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re: Joel Guy jr 7 guilty verdicts on killing and dismembering his parents.
Posted on 10/2/20 at 4:39 pm to HonoraryCoonass
Posted on 10/2/20 at 4:39 pm to HonoraryCoonass
The jerk store called, and said they’re running out of you!
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Posted on 10/2/20 at 9:41 pm to GeauxWrek
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How do those defense lawyers ever sleep at night knowing they are trying to help get people like this free?
It's the founding principle of our justice system. If you don't advocate zealously on behalf of all your clients, the innocent will go to prison. Some people can do it and some it ruins. I had to stop. These kinds of cases drove me into full-blown substance abuse.
Posted on 10/2/20 at 9:55 pm to GeauxWrek
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How do those defense lawyers ever sleep at night knowing they are trying to help get people like this free?
This case is more "interesting and unusual" than it is "difficult". Sure, it's fricked up what he did to the bodies, but so are autopsies.
It's what people do to people when they are still alive that can be tougher to wrap your head around.
Posted on 10/2/20 at 9:56 pm to real turf fan
My wife went to highschool with him. Said he was odd but overall a nice guy at the time.
Posted on 10/2/20 at 10:00 pm to Joshjrn
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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.
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.
Posted on 10/2/20 at 10:03 pm to SCLibertarian
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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.
Yeah, that's why I represent the people in your first paragraph but not your second...
Closest I've ever come to practicing family law is standing in on a few non-support matters. I'll take my murder clients any day over that shite.
Posted on 10/2/20 at 10:24 pm to real turf fan
shite happens
Posted on 10/2/20 at 11:15 pm to SCLibertarian
I don't know how people do family and criminal work. Stresses me out just thinking about it.
Posted on 10/2/20 at 11:17 pm to CottonWasKing
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CottonWasKing
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My wife
Woah...when did this happen? Congrats man
Posted on 10/2/20 at 11:22 pm to Tigerlaff
Criminal is easy.
Imagine if your favorite person in all the world (parent, spouse, kid, whatever) were accused of committing a crime and the State was trying to lock them in a cage for years, possibly for the rest of their lives. Imagine how hard you would fight to keep them out of that cage. Whether they did it or not, you would try to move heaven and earth to make sure you minimized the damage to them and their lives as much as humanly possible.
Now wrap up all of the energy and emotion and go do the same for other people.
Imagine if your favorite person in all the world (parent, spouse, kid, whatever) were accused of committing a crime and the State was trying to lock them in a cage for years, possibly for the rest of their lives. Imagine how hard you would fight to keep them out of that cage. Whether they did it or not, you would try to move heaven and earth to make sure you minimized the damage to them and their lives as much as humanly possible.
Now wrap up all of the energy and emotion and go do the same for other people.
This post was edited on 10/2/20 at 11:23 pm
Posted on 10/3/20 at 12:46 am to real turf fan
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Guy Jr. had been living on his own in Baton Rouge for nearly a decade, records show. He had been registered to vote as a Democrat in Louisiana since 2008.
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