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By "Captain Liberty" and "Rumpole"

The Dade County Bar Association is hanging a plaque today  in the Miami Courthouse at 73 West Flagler apologizing for the history of segregation at the courthouse.  The title of the post links to the Herald article. As a criminal defense attorney who's been forced to sit by himself when in civil court, I think the apology is long overdue. Seriously. There are two ways to look at this.  One group says that the sins of the fathers should not be visited upon their sons. Put another way, there is no such thing as collective guilt, only individual actions that should be punished accordingly. And we don't disagree with that sentiment at all. But the other way to look at this is that it is less an apology than an acknowledgment of a horrible wrong...continue to full post

Full post as published by Justice Building Blog on February 24, 2009 (boomark / email).