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21 December 2005

Overzealous Advocacy

While as an "advocate, a lawyer zealously asserts the client's position", there are limits. Shooting opposing counsel and nearly killing him, allegedly in order to get a continuance in a civil trial, is well over the line. The offending attorney will be spending multiple decades in prison as a result. The victim is on life support and has been unconscious for months.

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