How fucking far can you abdicate responsibility?!

[kellinator]

http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/Midwest/09/23/video.child.beating/index.html

"The woman caught on videotape repeatedly striking her 4-year-old daughter in the rear of a sport utility vehicle is due in court this afternoon. Despite admitting the beating and saying there was 'no excuse' for it, she's expected to plead not guilty to felony child battery charges."

Is the state of society so bad that this moron thinks she can admit to a heinous crime on NATIONAL FUCKING TELEVISION and STILL claim she is innocent in a court of law?

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Re: Interesting how emotionalism can take hold

[cynical7.livejournal.com]

She goes on TV, sheds a few crocodile tears, and apologizes.... Suddenly the jury pool is swimming with apologists, people who think that "a bruise that heals in eight days is not a bad bruise".

Well, that can also work AGAINST them...

most juries are picked by both attorney's asking questions to weed down people they don't want (its called vois dire, or something to that affect). generally, a big number will be called, the court will pull 15 or so names out of a hat and the attorney's ask questions like "were you beaten as a child" "do you approve of capital punishment" and eliminate those that have a bias towards the other side. I once witnessed this for a stupid little tort case involving a relativly minor car accident. The questions they asked ranged from "have you ever been hurt in a car accident" to "how familar are you with that exact strech of road?"

so...i wouldn't neccesarily speak of media spin being a lawyer's job because in the vast majority of cases (and there are exceptions --::cough:: OJ! ::cough::) this isn't at all true.