From: "Ray Marshall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
the Strib mentioned in passing that there were 160 attorneys in the [Hennepin County Attorney] Department… ….Just whatever do you imagine that they do all day long?
LB here: Some time ago, Amy Klobuchar, HC Attorney, addressed a small group at Maria’s Café. She started: “Guess how many attorneys work for Hennepin County. I sat in front and raised my hand. “All of them,” I said. I think she said there are 300 County Attorneys.
Some of them are assigned to defend people whom one person wants labeled “mentally ill.” Another attorney is assigned to defend the person under siege. No matter. In a few years of court-watching, only one time have I seen an attorney mount a proper defense. That attorney was fired by Hennepin County and left the State.
Sometimes it takes (3) three county attorneys to keep one person in the drugged-up, disabled state if that person happens to have a public-minded or family Conservator who acts in the best interest of his/her client.
Each of the Conservators are supposed to have an attorney, why, I don’t know. Some Conservators actually want their charges to be kept over-drugged on heart and liver-destroying drugs that cause them to gain 60 pounds and start diabetes in many of them. Attorneys are necessary to maintain this system and to take the Conservatorship away from anyone who objects to the over-drugging. Sometimes, they get thousands of dollars extra above their legitimate rate.
From: "Ray Marshall" again:
I'm afraid to inquire as to how many attorneys are employed by Minneapolis.
LB here:
Many city attorneys are needed to defend the City for the work of the police. I watched the court last week in a case that I had watched about three years earlier where cops in punk outfits had severely injured a family in their own home minding their own business. In this case, the young man was forced to plead guilty to crimes the police charged him with in order to make it more difficult for him to charge them with abuse.
This kind of thing keeps many attorneys busy. We can’t let justice take its course, now can we?
The people with whom I watched the court told me that many times, people in the black or disadvantaged white community are charged with crimes the police know they didn’t do. They are forced to plead guilty to avoid fines they can’t afford and jail terms they can’t serve because they are working. This gives them a criminal record. This is always a disadvantage in many ways as they go through life. If you wonder how come some populations have a high number of criminal records among them, wonder no longer. This is Minnesota justice.
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