Timeline for How are judges and lawyers usually protected in high profile cases?
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| Oct 22, 2023 at 1:57 | comment | added | ohwilleke | @AlanSTACK Domestic case parties are much more emotionally invested and impulsive than criminal defendants in organized crime cases, and don't think through things carefully. Like mass shooters and cop killers, almost every single domestic case party that is violent towards a judge or lawyer is caught and punished severely if they live to tell the tale (many commit suicide or are killed as police try to arrest them), and replacement judges for murdered officials tend to be out to get the defendants even more than the original in the U.S. even if this presents a safety risk. It isn't logical. | |
| Oct 21, 2023 at 3:01 | comment | added | AlanSTACK | Huh, that's interesting. I never would have expected domestic violence to be the primary source of concern. I always figured it would be large organized criminal gangs or cartels. | |
| Oct 21, 2023 at 1:50 | comment | added | ohwilleke | @AlanSTACK Case in point: a judge is shot and killed at home (where there is no security staff) by a father in a custody case over which he presided earlier that day. This is the typical violence threat for a judge or a lawyer. cnn.com/2023/10/20/us/… | |
| Oct 6, 2023 at 20:01 | history | edited | ohwilleke | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 6, 2023 at 19:28 | vote | accept | AlanSTACK | ||
| Sep 1, 2023 at 22:54 | comment | added | ohwilleke | @AlanSTACK Lots of lawyers have a policy of not taking cases where domestic violence is an issue because that (rather than cases with high profile individuals) is the predominant source of violence against lawyers. I had a colleague once who did that because she and her clerk had been shot by one when she was a magistrate. | |
| Sep 1, 2023 at 22:03 | comment | added | AlanSTACK | Since lawyers are just left to "fend for themselves". Do you know of any cases where a lawyer decided to drop out instead of prosecute/defend a high profile individual? | |
| Sep 1, 2023 at 21:55 | comment | added | ohwilleke | @AlanSTACK It is actually very rare, far more rare than you would intuitively expect. | |
| Sep 1, 2023 at 21:54 | comment | added | AlanSTACK | Is it actually that rare? What do they do when dealing with Mexican Cartels/Al Capone? | |
| Sep 1, 2023 at 20:28 | history | answered | ohwilleke | CC BY-SA 4.0 |