Shannon the Prosecutor

On January 13, Glenn Beck said, “Truth has no agenda.”  Indeed it does not. 

A dear sweet friend of mine who is a good and ethical man has been falsely accused of a crime by a District Attorney’s office that has an agenda – vengeance.  The only attorney who looked at the evidence and still agreed to be the special prosecutor has an agenda – to be the next DA of that county.  Two defense attorneys who immediately signed on to help my friend both have an agenda – one wants to be the next DA and the other wants to stay on the current DA’s good side.  Four attorneys.  Four agendas.  No justice.  No one is concerned with truth or justice except my unjustly accused friend.  He actually believes that the truth will save him. 

Most attorneys started out honorably as law students.  We felt that the law was a noble profession and we believed in certain ideals.  Some attorneys lose/sell their ideals along the way helping to create some funny lawyer jokes.  DAs and ADAs do not have the luxury of selling out.  District Attorney’s Offices are entrusted with an awesome power, but our job as prosecutors is to do justice.  Our job description is statutorily defined in most states.  By law we are not tasked with getting convictions, but with finding justice.  I assure you the former would be the much easier task.   

I take the search for justice seriously and so does Ann.  She’s a liberal public defender in the north.  I’m a conservative prosecutor in the south.  Perhaps the tie that binds us together is our belief that truth matters and that the only ideal an attorney must never let go of is justice.