Comments on: Chuck’s Very Bad Day? http://blog.bennettandbennett.com/2008/02/chuck-very-bad-day.html the tao of criminal-defense trial lawyering Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:39:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mark Bennett http://blog.bennettandbennett.com/2008/02/chuck-very-bad-day.html/comment-page-1#comment-1033 Mark Bennett Sat, 02 Feb 2008 15:33:00 +0000 http://bennettandbennett.com/blog/?p=496#comment-1033 If it is possible for a person to get whacked in the head and be "no longer Gage", how can we know, without first understanding everything that created his personality, whether a person deserves to be charged with a crime or not. We can't. You don't know, I don't know, and Chuck doesn't know. That is one of my guiding principles. <br/><br/>But unless you are a nihilist you believe that the universe corrects its own imbalances. If Chuck goes around charging people with crimes without knowing every aspect of their nature and nurture that lead them to do what they do (knowledge that is beyond us mere mortals) it shouldn't surprise anyone when he winds up on the receiving end of such "justice". If it is possible for a person to get whacked in the head and be “no longer Gage”, how can we know, without first understanding everything that created his personality, whether a person deserves to be charged with a crime or not. We can’t. You don’t know, I don’t know, and Chuck doesn’t know. That is one of my guiding principles.

But unless you are a nihilist you believe that the universe corrects its own imbalances. If Chuck goes around charging people with crimes without knowing every aspect of their nature and nurture that lead them to do what they do (knowledge that is beyond us mere mortals) it shouldn’t surprise anyone when he winds up on the receiving end of such “justice”.

]]> By: Ron in Houston http://blog.bennettandbennett.com/2008/02/chuck-very-bad-day.html/comment-page-1#comment-1031 Ron in Houston Sat, 02 Feb 2008 14:29:00 +0000 http://bennettandbennett.com/blog/?p=496#comment-1031 When you see the humiliation that people go through when being charged with a crime, you only want the most heinous of criminals to suffer that fate.<br/><br/>I don't know that Chuck rises to that level. When you see the humiliation that people go through when being charged with a crime, you only want the most heinous of criminals to suffer that fate.

I don’t know that Chuck rises to that level.

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