Community | November 15, 2009 | 20 comments

An unlikely bond: one a lawyer, the other a killer

source: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bal-md.gordon15nov15

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Minutes before convicted Washington-area sniper John Allen Muhammad was executed Tuesday night in Virginia, he said goodbye to a Baltimore lawyer who had become a trusted confidant.

"I love you, brother," Muhammad said, according to the attorney, J. Wyndal Gordon, and Gordon told the condemned man he loved him back.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bal-md.gordon15nov15,0,2036386.story
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20 comments // An unlikely bond: one a lawyer, the other a killer

  • samthesixth
  • ozoneocean
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      ozoneocean  

    • I don't see anything exeptional here in any way, shape or form. The judicial system dictates that the accused MUST be defended, so the lawyer can not be slighted for doing that, unless you're a moron. If in doing so the man learns things and communicates with him on a more intimate level, that's only to be expected given the seriousness of the situation and its intensity.

    • 2 years ago
  • idealist
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      idealist  

    • you cant help where you were born or how you were raised(look at the pope) some people are just raised to be extremnist. but i dont feel sorry for him.

    • 2 years ago
  • samthesixth
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      samthesixth  

    • I read today that the lawyer is going to write a book telling the killer's story. How can he justify the killing of innocent people? The ahole lawyer just wants to profit. I hope he donates the proceeds to the surviving family members of the victims.

    • 2 years ago
  • samthesixth
  • ankab
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      ankab  

    • It would have been even tougher to defend him had the attorney believed he should have been executed. Plus he had an accomplice which makes him even worse in the # of people he dispatched with swiftly. Innocent ones at that I might ad.

    • 2 years ago
  • 2helenahandbasket
  • Maeveeo
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  • jac1992
  • dlester
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      dlester  

    • I fail to see what is so unlikely about this bond. The lawyer defending him wasn't even remotely concerned with right vs wrong, but simply in doing anything and everything he could to get his client off completely or reducing his punishment. I would expect an individual with personal values that skewed to feel a genuine kinship toward a cancer of society.

    • 2 years ago
  • Jusoon
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      Jusoon  
    • dlester:

      If we want to hold to the concept of "innocent until proven guilty in a fair trial" then lawyers are going to have to defend everyone, including dirtbags like Muhammad. I don't hold that against the lawyers and I really wouldn't want it any other way.

    • 2 years ago
  • dlester
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      dlester  
    • dlester:

      I said nothing about it being inappropriate for someone to receive a proper defense. That isn't what I said at all. I said, rather clearly, that our legal system consists of individuals who have eroded the basic principles of the system away from right/wrong to whatever can be skewed and distorted to achieve an end, regardless of how bad that outcome may be for society.

      Our legal system has not been anything about determining guilt/innocence for a very long time. These very same individuals police themselves regarding ethics. It is any wonder it is so fucked up.

    • 2 years ago
  • Jusoon
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      Jusoon  
    • dlester:

      So, you are ok with defense attorneys trying to defend their clients, but if they "really try" and use every tool at their disposal, they are parasites and have destroyed our legal system?

      Courts in America have never about right or wrong. Right or wrong is subjective, guilt or innocence is a legal fact. John Mohammad is guilty of murder. Was he right or wrong? I imagine if you went to some places in the world they'd tell you he was a hero for what he did. You can't ask the courts to decide what is "morally right" and still consider your legal system impartial.

      I understand your sentiment. But we just have to keep reminding ourselves that even the most vile people have the right to a fair trial and a vigorous defense of their innocence.

    • 2 years ago
  • treewolf39
  • J_Jammer
  • chinese_democracy
  • idealist
  • idealist
  • macdontcare
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