St. Tammany Parish Sheriff Jack Strain now says "he was referring to attorneys who attack the system, not those who rightfully defend the freedoms of others."
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Sheriff Strain's original statement:
"I know you have some Slick lawyers on both sides of the lake who make tremendous living off of getting these people out of jail. Well we've proven in this parish that it is pretty difficult challenge for them to make a good living, defense attorneys that is. My personal opinion, that's the first people we should put on a rail and get out of here."
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So the Sheriff believes that slick lawyers who get "these" people out of jail are attacking the system and should therefore be run out of town on rail.
And, who are "these" people to whom the Sheriff is referring?
I submit that the Sheriff is referring to Katrina survivors who lost their former homes in housing projects and are either now homeless or living in trailers. However, he may be referring to the two dreadlock and "chee wee" hairstyle wearing perpetrators of a recent quadruple murder in Slidell, Louisiana. But, since the Sheriff presumptively does not know who the perpetrators are or where they come from, I question his harsh generalization about the trash that he believes New Orleans chooses to coddle.
His statement: "For some reason, New Orleans chooses to coddle ...people...or criminals in that area, that ...tend to get away with a great deal. We will not coddle that trash in St. Tammany Parish. If they come to St. Tammany Parish we're gonna pursue them, we're gonna arrest them, our prosecutors are gonna prosecute them and our Judges are gonna convict them." http://video.google.com/...
As chief law enforcement officer of the Parish, I guess the only thing standing between him and his master plan of keeping the Parish clean and "trash" free would be those slick lawyers who make a tremendous living upholding the Sixth Amendment.