'I had obligation to defend rapist'

[Theowl32]

'I had obligation to defend rapist': Hillary Clinton hits back at accusations she discredited victim, 12, when working as a lawyer despite knowing attacker was guilty

Hillary Clinton has said she was obliged to defend an accused rapist out of professional duty when she was a lawyer in the 1970s - a case in which she was ready to discredit the 12-year-old victim.

She even intimated that she knew the accused was guilty by revealing her shock that he passed a lie detector test.

Mrs Clinton was given the case in 1975 when she ran the University of Arkansas’ legal aid clinic. The accused was Thomas Alfred Taylor, 41.

Last month an audio recording emerged of an interview Mrs Clinton gave in the mid-1980s in which she chuckled several times as she described how she helped set the accused free.


The recording drew fierce criticism from the victim, who is now 52.
Mrs Clinton has now spoken about the case for the first time, telling Mumsnet that it was her duty to defend the accused.

She said: ‘When I was a 27-year-old attorney doing legal-aid work at the law school where I taught in Fayetteville, Arkansas, I was appointed by the local judge to represent a criminal defendant accused of rape. I asked to be relieved of that responsibility, but I was not, and I had a professional duty to represent my client to the best of my ability, which I did.

‘When you’re a lawyer you often don’t have the choice to choose who you will represent, and by the very nature of criminal law there will be those who you represent that you won’t approve of.

‘But at least in our system you have an obligation, and once I was appointed, I fulfilled that obligation.’


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Hillary's Laughing Defense of Child Rapist: Not a Front-Page WashPost Story Like Romney's Alleged Teen Haircut.

Aww, what a poor woman.

 

[boedicca]

Hillary didn't have the obligation to chortle about duping the prosecution.

 

[Katzndogz]

Of course she had an obligation to defend the rapist.

And yes, when defense attorneys get a success over the prosecution, they chortle BIG TIME. Usually the office will high five one another.

 

[KNB]

We should abolish the criminal justice system if defendants are allowed legal counsel, right?

 

[Mad Scientist]

The vast majority of Lawyers get together and plan out your pleadings BEFORE they even enter the court. Sometimes even with the judge present! How do you think they get such high conviction rates?

The Courts are corrupt and Lawyers don't deserve our respect.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

'I had obligation to defend rapist'

yep...

 

[PaintMyHouse]

Hillary didn't have the obligation to chortle about duping the prosecution.

Try reading the story, and the fact that the prosecution lost the evidence, what little there was of it considering the girl had a habit of riding around in pickup trucks with drunk older men, who she had an affection for...

 

[Sallow]

You folks are going down a really dangerous road here..

The BEDROCK of our legal system absolutely depends on vigorous defense of clients by lawyers.

If that's gone? We do not have a legal system. At all.

 

[theHawk]

I understand lawyers have the obligation to defend the defendant, but that doesn't mean they should get them off at any cost. Our justice system is a joke, where rapists and pedophiles get off lightly thanks to shitbag lawyers like Clinton. They all knew this scumbag was guilty, and yet pleaded him down to walking. Disgusting.

 

[KissMy]

You folks are going down a really dangerous road here..

The BEDROCK of our legal system absolutely depends on vigorous defense of clients by lawyers.

If that's gone? We do not have a legal system. At all.

Republicans love building prisons, filling them with citizens & paying for them with your tax dollars.

 

[Katzndogz]

The complaint isn't so much that she defended the man. Everyone is entitled to a defense. It's that she enjoyed winning.

I got news for ya. We all enjoy winning! Defense attorneys do not moan and groan about having the defend some dirt bag. They enjoy winning. They love getting rulings against the prosecution. It's just how we are.

 

[Theowl32]

You folks are going down a really dangerous road here..

The BEDROCK of our legal system absolutely depends on vigorous defense of clients by lawyers.

If that's gone? We do not have a legal system. At all.

It is the bedrock of our legal system to laugh about the guy that raped a child?

Interesting.

Romney gives someone a haircut in college and the hypocritical morons on the left.....

and.....

When their queen **** laughs about a man she admits she knew was guilty of raping a 12 year old girl?

The hypocritical morons on the left (who are claiming how much they love the immigrant children) reaction to that?

That my friends, is what all of this is all about.

 

[Katzndogz]

I understand lawyers have the obligation to defend the defendant, but that doesn't mean they should get them off at any cost. Our justice system is a joke, where rapists and pedophiles get off lightly thanks to shitbag lawyers like Clinton. They all knew this scumbag was guilty, and yet pleaded him down to walking. Disgusting.

Most times the defense attorney knows their client is guilty. That doesn't enter into consideration at all. There are definite rules so that getting the client off at any cost isn't possible. Clinton didn't break any rules. She took advantage of prosecutorial error. The same kind of prosecutorial error that let Bill Ayers go.

 

[ogibillm]

The complaint isn't so much that she defended the man. Everyone is entitled to a defense. It's that she enjoyed winning.

I got news for ya. We all enjoy winning! Defense attorneys do not moan and groan about having the defend some dirt bag. They enjoy winning. They love getting rulings against the prosecution. It's just how we are.

frankly if they didn't they wouldn't be very good defense attorneys, would they?

 

[Warrior102]

Of course she had to defend the rapist.
She's married to him.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

When their queen **** laughs about a man she admits she knew was guilty of raping a 12 year old girl?

Go find in the transcript where she laughed about that? Thanks a bunch...

 

[R.D.]

She was not obligated, she chose to. She agreed to defend the rapist after being asked by the prosecutor because the scumbag wanted a female attny. She was not court appointed.

 

[ClosedCaption]

I understand lawyers have the obligation to defend the defendant, but that doesn't mean they should get them off at any cost. Our justice system is a joke, where rapists and pedophiles get off lightly thanks to shitbag lawyers like Clinton. They all knew this scumbag was guilty, and yet pleaded him down to walking. Disgusting.

Hillary isnt the only lawyer in a position of power. To pretend that she is or that ALL the other lawyers are ok is bullshit.

Theres tons of lawyers in congress and the senate.

Heres your response to that fact: *crickets*

 

[PaintMyHouse]

She was not obligated, she chose to. She agreed to defend the rapist after being asked by the prosecutor because the scumbag wanted a female attny. She was not court appointed.

Big deal. It's what lawyers get paid to do. Once she took the job she did it.

Did she go to law school just for fun?

 

[Theowl32]

As usual, the lefties dancing around the point.

She was obligated to laugh about the rapist getting away with raping a child? He did rape the child, and she admitted it.

She laughed about it.

There you go. Now tell us how there are many defense attorneys who laugh and so therefore it is perfectly alright.

All while you claim to love little immigrant children being used as pawns by the democrats in this election year and feign outrage when Romney gave someone a haircut in college.