Star Chamber

A comment on an article about an ongoing death penalty trial in Jefferson Parish:

toocynical March 21, 2011 at 3:23PM

That's his defense - I'm stoned and scared....the defense attorney should be on trial too.

I think its dangerous to suggest that an attorney should be punished for representing his client. However, its also the position taken by a number of prominent conservatives so it probably doesn't rank as high on the offensiveness chart as the usual racist and sexist invective we see on NOLA.com. Unless you are, like me, a criminal defense attorney.