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12 Aug 2008 09:05 am
The Wire, In Real Life
Even David Simon couldn't make this up:
In the previous year, nearly twenty defendants in other Baltimore cases
had begun adopting what lawyers in the federal courthouse came to call
“the flesh-and-blood defense.” The defense, such as it is, boils down
to this: As officers of the court, all defense lawyers are really on
the government’s side, having sworn an oath to uphold a vast,
century-old conspiracy to conceal the fact that most aspects of the
federal government are illegitimate, including the courts, which have
no constitutional authority to bring people to trial. The defendants
also believed that a legal distinction could be drawn between their
name as written on their indictment and their true identity as a “flesh
and blood man.”
And so theories once used to defend white supremacists are now being deployed by urban drug gangsters.
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