From: "P. J. Alling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Not quite, a lawyer must be convinced that you'll win your case, or be
presented with large sums of money in advance before he'll take action.
Does not change what I said, even if lawyers are somewhat more expensive
than a modern pistol.
If you kill someone in self defense, even in you own living room in some
cases you may still end up being charged with and convicted of some
level of murder.
Not likely in my state.
If you only maim them once again in that same living room, you may
yourself be sued.
Being sued is not the same as loosing a suit. I pay my friend Barry very
small retainer to handle the possibility of this and other annoyances.
The point being that if 100 guilty men go free, there was a better chance
of protecting oneself than we are allowed today.
What the hell does this crap mean? Someone may say, "It's better that 100
guilty go free than 1 innocent be imprisoned." That's a far cry from being
the actual odds. But even if it was, then the odds would be in my favor if I
was charged! Where do you think I live? England?
Even so, the old saying, "Better to be judged by twelve than carried by
six!"
Bob Blakely wrote:
We still have duels. Today we duel by proxy. We call these proxies...
lawyers.
Regards,
Bob...
