What’s funny is that even in the Kitty Genovese case, that was a false narrative.

Just wondering, have you gone through all the hundreds of thousands of documents?

Her treatment in custody is an entirely different issue.

THats the real tragedy.

The biggest difference I see between Snowden and Manning is this: Snowden released a bunch of information about a specific NSA program that he thought the public should know about. That’s whistleblowing.

If she had released specific information to expose war crimes, I would agreed with you. Except that’s not what happened at all.

I don’t really think 35 years for intentionally revealing an enormous amount of classified data is ‘outlandishly harsh.’

I’m not for executing people. However, I find it absolutely impossible to muster sympathy for murderers.

You these athletes are incapable of rape?

So....we’re in agreement that there shouldn’t be a blanket ban.....?

I honestly can’t tell you what’s on the MPRE, because like I said, since it doesn’t apply to my legal career outside of needing to pass the test, I didn’t care to commit it to long term memory. MPRE prep courses? Hahahah, no I didn’t waste my time on that.

I know you didn’t mean a blanket ban :) I was just trying to point out that the prohibition on sex with clients doesn’t take a lot of variables into account. For me personally, my ‘client’ consists of a whole bunch of people who work for the same organization I do. Yes, there would be potential for sexual harassment…

Rrriiiiiight. Because no lawyer studied for the MPRE for one day or not at all and then instantly forgot it all since our state doesn’t follow the model rules. Hmmmm....let’s see.....where does that happen....oh right, California.

Wrong again. Not all states have mandatory reporting requirements.

The victim is one of ‘the people,’ and so is the defendant. We obviously can’t stop prosecutors from dating entirely. bBasically the prosecutors have lots of power to just take whatever cases they want and not take the cases they don’t. That’s why they are typically elected officials. The recourse would be to try and…

Hahahaha yes. Steps that could in many cases cost her her job.

Actually, every lawyer doesn’t know this because that’s not the rule everywhere.

Except, if you’re over inclusive, then you creat another problem which is this:

In a criminal case, the prosecutor’s client is the state or ‘the people,’ not the victim. This particular ban wouldn’t prevent a prosecutor from having sex with a victim.

How exactly is the threat of punishment —to a lawyer— going to stop a client manipulating the lawyer?