Dear Prudence

Coming from you, that's a compliment.

MessyONE — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 02:42:19 GMT

Prig.

Re: public defender's response to rude questions

quietwife — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:06:53 GMT

Also, a bigger weiner.

Re: public defender's response to rude questions

pollyanna — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 19:47:53 GMT

Fine line between wit and rudeness. TM has wit; SC has rudeness.

Re: public defender's response to rude questions

Tarquin Machismo — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 09:43:32 GMT

I don't know what Harry Callahan would say about that.

public defender's response to rude questions

Annalisa — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:57:49 GMT

As a former public defender who often got similar questions, I found it helpful to tell people that my job was law enforcement: making sure that no accused person was convicted unless police and prosecutors obeyed the law, dotted every I and crossed every T required to convict, that in doing so I was enforcing and defending the Constitution, and thus defending the person who was asking me the question, whether that person felt s/he needed defending or not. Said with a tiny bit of lawyer's arrogance (faux-rudeness), that usually turned rude questioning into authentic interest about what my job was really about, and gave me an opportunity to educate people about the many problems in the criminal justice system as it exists in our country.