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Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 06:43:19 -0800
To: Harold Thomas <harold@halcyon.com>
From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: Re: State of the Bar
Words "laerned in the law" were omitted as unnecessary.
Such requirement is not made of United States judges and
no reason appears to make a distinction respecting United
States attorneys.
[Historical and Statutory Notes, 28 U.S.C. 541]
[Federal Civil Judicial Procedure and Rules]
[West Publishing Company, 1996 Edition]
At 12:22 PM 3/17/97 -0800, you wrote:
>To: Letters Editor, the Times
>
> An attorney friend of mine passed along an article from the March
>1997 Washington State Bar News. It was written by the current president of
>the Washington State Bar Association, who shall go nameless as I am simply
>too embarrassed for him to include his name. It is reasonable to assume he
>graduated law school, passed the Washington State Bar exam and enjoys the
>respect and esteem of the legal establishment in our fair state.
> In his article, titled "The Jury System: A Fourth Branch of
>Government?", he makes the following statement: "The right to a trial by
>jury is not contained in our federal constitution, yet every state in the
>union guarantees such a right."
> In recent years public doubts about the efficacy of our legal system
>have resulted in serious dialog in many quarters as numerous lawyers and
>judges have taken rather severe hits in a variety of highly publicized cases
>that hardly need mentioning. However, this particular gaffe by the current
>president of the WSBA is of such magnitude that, were it to occur in a
>country where "honor" meant anything, one might expect the honorable
>"presidente" to don his ceremonial garb and summarily disembowel himself --
>or, at the minimum, resign in disgrace!
> Increasingly, people are coming to realize that the knowledge and
>expertise of today's attorney has more and more to do with process,
>procedure and billable hours, and less and less to do with justice and the
>law. That any president of a bar association could have utterly forgotten
>(or never have been familiar with) Article III, Section 2, Clause 3 of the
>United States Contitution and Article VII of the Bill of Rights is a
>horrendous commentary on the state of the legal profession, if not the
>judicial system as a whole.
> That some readers will need to look up these passages while others
>simply won't care is beyond commentary.
>
>Harold Thomas
>Edmonds
>
>
>
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