Oklahoma Justice System Case Study
Everyone deserves a good lawyer even people who have done terrible things such as terrorism rape and murder. Lawyers who take up these cases however face personal danger in the way of threats, attacks on them and attacks on their family and friends, and the effects last even after the treats stop coming they will lose business because they are seen as a person defending the actions of their client and not what they are actually doing which is them defending the rights of their client. Because of these factors some long term effects it will have on the justice system is that more and more lawyers won't be willing to take on the hard / controversial clients which causes a weakening of the judicial system in its entirety. After the Oklahoma
City Bombing Stephen Jones was appointed to defend Timothy McVeigh his reputation as a lawyer was destroyed, “A law practice of 25 years was destroyed. It took me seven years to get it back to pre- 1995 levels.”(Jones). Even though it was an appointment Jones felt the consequences for years after the trial was over. In To kill a Mockingbird we can people loss of respect in Atticus and his family because he is defending Tom Robinson. When Mr. Link Dee was talking with Atticus in the yard we can see this, “ ‘-don’t see why you touched it in the first place,’ Mr. link deas was saying, ‘ you got everything to lose from this, Atticus. I mean everything.’ ”(Lee 146). Because of his choice to defend tom robinson he could lose his reputation with the town he could lose his life or his children's life. The only thing these lawyers didn’t lose by defending their clients was their dignity but dignity isn't enough for most people so to lose everything is enough to scare people away from taking on the hard cases.
City Bombing Stephen Jones was appointed to defend Timothy McVeigh his reputation as a lawyer was destroyed, “A law practice of 25 years was destroyed. It took me seven years to get it back to pre- 1995 levels.”(Jones). Even though it was an appointment Jones felt the consequences for years after the trial was over. In To kill a Mockingbird we can people loss of respect in Atticus and his family because he is defending Tom Robinson. When Mr. Link Dee was talking with Atticus in the yard we can see this, “ ‘-don’t see why you touched it in the first place,’ Mr. link deas was saying, ‘ you got everything to lose from this, Atticus. I mean everything.’ ”(Lee 146). Because of his choice to defend tom robinson he could lose his reputation with the town he could lose his life or his children's life. The only thing these lawyers didn’t lose by defending their clients was their dignity but dignity isn't enough for most people so to lose everything is enough to scare people away from taking on the hard cases.