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SOUTH OF THE BORDER

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Rumpole published an insightful piece Sunday morning, authored by an anonymous Miami Assistant State Attorney and an Assistant Public Defender.  It is powerfully written and excerpted below.  Thanks, as always, to Rumpole and friends at The Justice Building Blog.From "Report From The Front Lines," http://www.justicebuilding.blogspot.com/:BY THE ASA:There is as you (Rumpole) have written, "a palpable sense of fear" in the hallways of the State Attorneys Office. If you are content to sell your soul, if not your ideals, and act as an unreasonable, unfeeling automaton, then you can do just fine here at the SAO. Make unreasonable offers, refuse to compromise, don?t listen to reason or sympathy, or the particular facts of any case that might necessitate a lesser plea offer, and you will not run afoul of the administration and the myriad of "chiefs" that sit above you...continue to full post

Full post as published by JAABlog on February 24, 2008 (boomark / email).