who suggested that I was picking and choosing anything beyond a fair jury over a jury of mouth breathers?

meh. I’m a happy person with everything going right for me and if it makes other people happy to sneer I turn the other cheek. People act out their own problems.

Don’t listen to them, be as ethical as you can be and be your own moral compass. The law is full of sharks. Be a sunfish or something. i don’t know fish, be something kind and not tasty to them.

you define ‘getting the most favourable jury’.

Well I will pass that on, but aside from the loss of your respect, which will no doubt be felt keenly....

Vote for Summer!

I just found out in this post actually that this is the case in America. I’m not American so I didn’t realise that your legal system put the client above the court. I don’t think I could do that as a job - I couldn’t sleep at night!

Nope. first duty is to the court. I’m not american so that might be a difference I wasn’t aware of in your system.

yeah there is nothing like a great jury of intelligent and educated people who inexplicably convict your innocent client. sucks when that happens.

It can be done.

I get a lot of flack for not gendering my kids. Passive aggressive flack, like people say “Shes such a girl! And I know you have trucks and cars and boy toys at home, so I guess it just shows genetics will win!”

I’m also a criminal lawyer who defends whatever client is assigned to me by my firm. I am a survivor of childhood rape, rape as an adult and domestic violence.

Totally agree - I am on the autism spectrum while I very often don’t feel empathy for people I think make stupid decisions, I am capable of learning right from wrong.

was in a hospital and sooo pregnant I was using accessible toilets to haul myself back upright with the rail, so upon finding a toilet near the cafe I pushed open the door and found someone sitting on the toilet already.

probably because bodies are disgusting and gross and they cant control their own aging, excretions and mortality.

My racist and islamaphobic atheist mother wears basically a burkini to the beach to protect her ‘porcelain skin’ and preserve her crystalline modesty.

her body language. She’s hiding her crotch.

That’s how depression manifests sometimes. I had a boyfriend who had chronic, ongoing depression, and when I finally got sick of him missing medical appointments I made for him (at his request) so I brought people to him.

My husband is a jackass too!

....and my laugh is loud and big, it is a lumberjack of a laugh. It erupts and destroys silence. my blessing and my curse.