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Rank: Elder Joined: 10/13/2009 Posts: 1,950 Location: in kenya
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I am really admiring this Lawyer,he really knows what being a lawyer means,he risked his life to go and represent the kenyans who were being held in Uganda,he was released but al amin kimathis is still being held. Now he is the lawyer representing Onyancha, the suspected serial killer, his trial has been delayed numerous times because No lawyer wants to represent him.Muite was last week appointed as onyanchas defence lawyer but I think due to the sensitivity of the case he opted out to save his political career now am seeing Mbugua will be representing him....Lets the poor fellow get his day in court. '......to the acknowledgment of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ; 3 In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.' Colossians 2:2-3
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Rank: Elder Joined: 9/15/2006 Posts: 3,907
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@selah, this profession of law, in defence of a self-confessed serial killer, and what happens if the guy gets away on a technicality, is justice done?
It seems to me the law is not synonymous with Justice.
But then again, I'm reminded when Sir Thomas Moore, A Man for All Seasons, was once asked, if he had the Devil in his sights right ahead of him, and as sure as sunrise knew it was him; would he cut a great road through the law, get after the Devil 'shoot and save the world'?
Sir Thomas Moore responded:
"Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned ’round on you, where would you hide, the laws all being flat? This country’s planted thick with laws from coast to coast — man’s laws, not God’s — and if you cut them down . . . d’you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then?...
Yes, I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 12/23/2010 Posts: 1,229
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muganda wrote:@selah, this profession of law, in defence of a self-confessed serial killer, and what happens if the guy gets away on a technicality, is justice done?
It seems to me the law is not synonymous with Justice.
But then again, I'm reminded when Sir Thomas Moore, A Man for All Seasons, was once asked, if he had the Devil in his sights right ahead of him, and as sure as sunrise knew it was him; would he cut a great road through the law, get after the Devil 'shoot and save the world'?
Sir Thomas Moore responded:
"Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned ’round on you, where would you hide, the laws all being flat? This country’s planted thick with laws from coast to coast — man’s laws, not God’s — and if you cut them down . . . d’you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then?...
Yes, I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
give the devil the benefit of the law....profound. regarding law & justice - my alltime favourite is when a character in one of Dickens books is told that under law, he is guilty because of something his wife did since the assumption is that she did so under supervision. He responds: "if the law supposes that, the law is a ass - a idiot. If that's the eye of the law, the law is a bachelor; and the worst i wish the law is that his eye may be opened by experience.." Kudos to young idealistic lawyers like him who are willing to navigate assinine laws and assinine systems. For Onyancha, we still have to hang him by the book (not on the street like we'd want to).
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 12/9/2010 Posts: 894 Location: Nairobi
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then this good lawyer should be careful not to soil his cv. and as for onyancha, the blood of his victims is demanding for justice. Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It happens every day. ~Albert Camus, The Fall, 1956
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 11/4/2008 Posts: 1,289 Location: Nairobi
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The man is there to practice law. He has to make sure that Onyancha's prosecution is within the law. Is this a tough job? Onyancha could also be mentally sick.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 5/24/2007 Posts: 1,805
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I would bet he is eying political ofice come 2012. It happens all the time when elections are around the corner. Guys ( esp lawyers) find anything to get the limelight then use it to run for office. I say he is looking for publicity really as a sympathetic lawyer ( oxymoron I suppose) I Think Therefore I Am
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Rank: Elder Joined: 12/11/2008 Posts: 2,306
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I must congratulate this lawyer for trying to ensure that Onyancha's rights - and he has them - are not trampled underfoot. That said, some of these guys are more activists than lawyers. Al-amin Kimathi loves to defend those accused of terrorism. I still recall his attempts to sanitize that Jamaican preacher who no one wants. Al amin's work in my opinion is different. Great men are not always wise, neither do the aged understand judgement...
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Rank: Elder Joined: 2/7/2007 Posts: 11,935 Location: Nairobi
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Criminal lawyers end up being criminals themselves....Does someone remember the violent death of laywer....ABC and the circumstances? Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 5/13/2010 Posts: 869 Location: Nairobi
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Njung'e wrote:Criminal lawyers end up being criminals themselves....Does someone remember the violent death of laywer....ABC and the circumstances? There was a guy who was shot somewhere near UON a ka chips place.. I forget what it is called. ....above all, to stand.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 12/11/2008 Posts: 2,306
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His name was ndungi Great men are not always wise, neither do the aged understand judgement...
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