to take.
Just over the past ten years at least ten students in my district, about half a dozen in my classes, have been shot and killed. A few have been killed in much worse ways. You kind of get used to it, but not really. Law enforcement, faith, and traditional values are needed more than ever.
I'm sorry to hear it, Mr. Unkotare. Traditional values in America centered around Christian religious beliefs to do good to other people, even when they're not nice to you. And forgiving others of their wrongful act or acts is very hard to do unless one truly believes that to win heaven, you cannot bear false witness against your neighbors, nor can you judge them, which is clear in their minds that God is the ultimate judge, and not we ourselves. (Psalms 100) Our forefathers ultimately decided to base trials on human laws, which are not necessarily God's laws of kindness and forgiveness. Yet every year, judges are called on to hear cases where they are required to protect innocent people from murderers, home invaders, thieves, calumny that got an innocent person killed or thrown in jail. Free speech is frequently confused with criminal use of the English language to harm or kill an innocent person based on false witness. Calumny is not free speech, and false narratives are the poorest channels for speech that is a lie that harms or assassinates the character of a false witness's disdain based on his own human frailty of pushing free speech to carry out a crime of the humiliation of an innocent person to be thought of as a criminal when he committed no crime whatsoever. There's a fine line between free speech and calumny, and to ignore the difference of truth or untruth too frequently puts justice in the wrong if the lie is not made plain or even obfuscated by a defense attorney pulling a fast one.
The Salem Witch Trials that put innocent people to death are a clear example of calumny pushed over that truth-lie line. Errors of omission can also be used to hang a man. And I have little respect for people whose main lie is "I forget," because proving that is not true would take a Gerry Spence to figure it all out.
Gerald Leonard Spence (born January 8, 1929) is a semi-retired American trial lawyer and author. He is a member of the Trial Lawyer Hall of Fame, and is the founder of the Trial Lawyers College.
[2] Spence has never lost a criminal case before a jury either as a prosecutor or a defense attorney, and did not lose a civil case between 1969 and 2010.
[3][4] He is considered one of the greatest lawyers of the 20th century,
[5][6] and one of the best trial lawyers of all time.
[7][8][9][10][2] Described by
Richard Falk as a "lawyer par excellence".
[11]
He is recognized for virtually winning every case he has dealt with,
[8] and for winning a number of well-known cases, such as
Randy Weaver at
Ruby Ridge, the
Ed Cantrell murder case, the
Karen Silkwood case, and the defense of
Geoffrey Fieger.
[12] He also defended
Brandon Mayfield,
[13] and carried out the successful prosecution of
Mark Hopkinson.
[14] One of his most significant cases was the defense of
Imelda Marcos, former
First Lady of the Philippines, in a racketeering/fraud case considered one of the
trials of the century,
[15][16] which he won.
[17][13]
