I am a criminal defense and civil rights lawyer. I believe that the state is a necessary fiction and that taking it too seriously is the first step toward tyranny.
The following words from John Adams inspire me.
"Now to what higher object, to what greater character, can any mortal aspire than to be possessed of all this knowledge, well digested and ready at command, to assist the feeble and the friendless, to discountenance the haughty and lawless, to procure redress to wrongs, the advancement of right, to assert and maintain liberty and virtue, to discourage and abolish tyranny and vice?"
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I blog most days at: Norm Pattis. I also write for Who Is Gerry Darrow, Lawyers For All,Section 1983, Defending Sex Crimes and BCOTUS. I also write a weekly column on the law for the Connecticut Law Tribune.
If you want to contact me call my office at 203.393.3017.
The state's make money registering the dead on sex offender registries? It's true. Calling people names is a big money business, paid for by We the People.
Wow - I just won a case to get NY to take my out-of-state client off the NY registry. They said there was no way to take someone off unless their conviction was reversed, so I asked if they would keep people on after they were dead, and asked whether they tried to forward their paperwork beyond the grave. I guess it wasn't a joke.
But, but... If it saves just 1 child, all this would be worth it...
ReplyDeleteWow - I just won a case to get NY to take my out-of-state client off the NY registry. They said there was no way to take someone off unless their conviction was reversed, so I asked if they would keep people on after they were dead, and asked whether they tried to forward their paperwork beyond the grave. I guess it wasn't a joke.
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