Thursday, December 30, 2010
week one : response
WEEK ONE: 1st RESPONSE- The analogy that Jesse makes of war and being a defense attorney is very appropriate. Jesse being a former veteran of the Vietnam War coincides with him now having a(n)occupation as a defense attorney. In a sense defending your country is relevant to defending those in society. One does not know why they are fighting exactly or why they are truly defending those in society, they just know that this is what they have to do and is what they have chose to do. I would be a defense attorney rather than a prosecution attorney because alot of innocent men and women go to jail because of crooked prosecutors who only care about winning and not displaying the truth.
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1) Why did jesse become involved in war ?
ReplyDelete2) why did jesse become an defense attorney?
3) how did you feel about this chapter ?
well i felt this chapter was very interesting. we got to know a about are characters and who the are.
ReplyDeleteWeek One: Quote Analysis- "That was Antonio Ruiz, wasnt it?" said Matt Gonzalez, the Tejano lawyer. "I represented him over at san Quentin." senor antonio el tigre ruiz to be exact said jesse pasadoble, a chicano lawyer who was a veteran of the vietnam war and of almost two hundred felony trials. He renamed himself after that case and became a minor celebrity in the jails. You should have seen him at his sentencing. There he was, on crutches flipping the judge the bird with that phantom middle finger of his. The judge cited him for attempted contempt of court.Of course we argued both legal and factual impossibility, but the judge thought the intent to flip the bird was sufficient. ch2 pg32
ReplyDelete-This quote was meaningful to me because it stuck with me the most because of the use of imagery. The imagery allowed me to understand what's going on, who jesse was, and a little bit about the system in which he works.
QUESTION 1: THE analogy Jesse made between working as a defense lawyer and war was very appropriate.With him being a veteran from the Vietnam war it was typical for him to compare his job a defense attorney to war. the comparison was very appropriate because as describe in the text the work of a defense attorney is grimy like war.
ReplyDeleteI would be a defense attorney because i want to keep people out of jail and that is what they do. i would also like to be a defense attorney because they make more money then a prosecution attorney
1)Based on the text, Jesse's comparison is fairly appropriate because Jesse was given an opportunity to defend his country, and this can benefit him being a Defense Attorney by defending people. Jesse also has experience of being a soldier, he knows what trials and tribulations the soldiers have to go through. This gives him an opportunity to relate to ones situation , and can benefit him greatly as a defense attorney.
ReplyDeleteI would rather be a defense attorney instead of a prosecutor. There are so many individuals that get prosecuted for a crime that they aren't even responsible. Which is unfair. In order for me to be a defense attorney, there would have to be a mass amount of evidence that shows that my client is innocent. Prosecuting someone can be good and bad, without evidence even worse. I wouldn't want to prosecute someone that's completely innocent.
based on this chapter it kind ofgave me a better idea on what kind of person jesse wa.
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