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    Default Re: Is It Legal to Print Fake Pretend Play Money if We Change a Lot of Features

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    My impression of your posts here and elsewhere on this forum is that you place too much importance on the lawyer's powers of persuasion and too little on the actual evidence in the case and the law. Sure, the lawyer's ability to persuade the jury has an impact and can be significant, but most juries also do take account of the evidence they heard and the judge's instructions on the law. A good speech at the closing argument won't be enough in most cases overcome crappy evidence or law that disfavors the client's position. Most jurors can tell when a lawyer is totally BSing them in the closing argument, though there are exceptions where juries are totally clueless. A lawyer needs to have the sense to tailor his/her argument to the particular jury he/she is trying to win over.
    First off, you do not know how most juries arrive at their decision, what evidence they use or what bias they have going in. Secondly, it is not only the crafty, deceitful, misleading skills of a real trial lawyer that persuades a jury. The injustice of our court system also comes from the lack of skills of the opposing lawyer who thinks he is a real 'trial lawyer' because he has appeared in a courtroom on occasion.

    In our medical industry only accomplished doctors take on certain surgeries. In our justice system any lawyer can go against another lawyer for nearly any offense or defense. All the lawyer has to do is convince his client he/she is in good hands. If they were doctors and they lost a patient during a simple surgery, they would not perform that surgery again. But lawyers can lose a winnable case and all they have do is make up an excuse to their naive client and walk away to do it again.

    Just as we can research the background and expertise of a doctor before handing our life over to them, we should be able to research the background and win-rate of lawyers too. But we can't. Why is that? Is it the work of lobbyists to protect this often sleazy profession?

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