Legal Question in Criminal Law in California

Re: Interviewing a lawyer

1.There is going to be more economic pressure to decriminalize crimes that are victimless crimes such as illegal drugs and prostitution.

2.The public and private institutions to imprison people are a growth industry. The prison guard union contributed $150,000.00 to the Three Strikes.

3.Crimes as such have three causes economic, psychological, and social.

4.More creative ways need to be tried for society to address the problems that crime causes. Society needs to explore new models.

5.Society right now is in the process of getting more complicated. As each new variation of an old crime is invented, society's answer through the legislative process is to write a new law.

6.It will require more legal specialization to properly represent a citizen.

7.In the last twenty years I've believed that most citizens charged with the usual crimes can be represented by a general practitioner. However, I don't know if that will be true in the future.

8.I enjoy the challenge of representing a client against the power of the government. However, there is usually a very good reason why that person is in trouble. So what I'm doing normally is damage control.

9.They need to be simplified. However they reflect the mores of society, and simplifying the law has a very hopeless prospect.

10.I'd like to see changes in the method of handling criminal cases. I'd like to explore doing away with all plea bargaining and go to a system that tried all cases. The time involved might make the costs prohibitive.

11.I believe that putting the creation of criminal laws before the legislature and governor, who reacts in a knee jerk fashion to the uneducated whims of society is a wasteful process. We get gargantuan penalties, and the cost is prohibitive. I believe we have the largest population in prison in the world. If we don't then we have the largest population in prison in the free developed free world.

12.Get more of the people that are involved in working the system and have spent some time studying the process. To make it worse keep the process as it is. In the hands of the people reacting to fear and the legislature, who are trying to impress the people and get reelected.

13.Drugs, alcohol, testosterone, and lack of a spiritual center that educates individuals to identify themselves as part of the family whole.

14.This question is too abstract. However, I'll address the only real problems we have: diminishing natural resources and increasing world population. A world population of 12 billion people is just right around the corner. AIDS is our friend.

15.The increased disparity between the wealthy and lower classes with a disappearing middle class is a root cause of coming problems in our society. Right now the wealthiest man in the world has more money than the poorest 185 million people in this country. The middle class has always been the buffer between the upper and lowest class. Most of societies managers come from the middle class