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To: CharleyMike who wrote (83162)	6/28/2000 11:50:00 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 108807

With a really bad attorney error in the other direction (getting out) is unlikely except on appeal- however when the rich are involved I would grant you that the "error" is likely to be on their side- the rich can almost always afford better attorneys than the government. The poor usually get pretty bad representation- unless it's some high profile case - usually a REAL shocker. The guys who REALLY need the good representation are the borderline murder cases- where there is no PR draw. Of course they won't get it. I do not like wasted money, and court time- the monetary and human cost is staggering. I would MUCH rather spend our limited tax dollars teaching at risk MEN and boys (for murder is a mostly male game) then wasting the money down the sink hole of capital case expenses. If there were more SERVICES available Jefferey Daumer could have been stopped when his parents asked the system for HELP (one example). There are so many at risk men, I knew one. HE was my friends brother. He showed signs of mental illness from the age of 5. His mother was committed when he was about that age. I would spend the night with my friend in Junior High School and I would hear her brother pacing his room all night. He never changed his clothes or bathed. I called social services in high school- because I was concerned about him. They told me only a family member could do anything. There wasn't much even a family member could do. Now he COULD have killed someone- he had started killing animals. But instead he killed himself. What did he deserve? I don't know. What do the all violent and damaged individuals "deserve"? I don't know. But we need to protect society from them in the most humane way possible- and YES, I would like to do it cost effectively, so that the money can be used for ALL the other things we need to spend money on. There ARE things we can do for the mentally ill. There ARE things we can do for the violent. There ARE ways to identify and follow violent people. But they cost money. I'd like to see more emphasis on prevention. There is very little done in the way of real prevention and intervention, and yet prevention is always more cost effective and MUCH more humane.