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Re: Feds: Immigration lawyer told clients to lie about persecution
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Wednesday, May 11 2016, 19:16:45 (UTC)
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...first of all, conviction rates in federal courts are around 95%, meaning the Feds don;t bring charges unless they are sure of victory...in State courts it's around 35%, So Robert's lawyer has his work cut out for him.

The only defense he has is, "they lied to me"...but that's no defense at all....as an officer of the court he's supposed to do his due diligence and examine his clients and their claims.

I don't Robert's having lied to get Assyrians into the United States...what I find reprehensible is that he did it by lying about Muslim "persecution"...by smearing and slandering Iraqis and feeding into the Xenophobia and Islamophobia already running wild in the West...THAT is the greater crime as far as I am concerned.

Robert is a decent enough fellow...a cousin of mine whom I've known since he has was a muscle-building teenager.

It's a first offense so he shouldn't get too much jail time...but he'll lose his license to practice law.

The only thing in his favor is that it might seem unlikely to a jury or a judge that a lawyer would risk his license and career to a. help Assyrians or b. make a lot of cash off of them....when he could have continued his practise, made money legally and kept his self-respect....but now he's ruined his life and that of his family....was it really done just to profit? Were there not enough legitimate ways for a lawyer to make money? Or, was it really a mission to save Assyrians any way he could?

If the latter was the case then he shouldn't have been so giddy at the start of the war against Iraq....as if there would be some exclusive benefit to Iraqi Christians from their country and neighbors being attacked by a coalition of Christian nations.



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