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Originally Posted by Lightspeed
That may well be the case. But what we're hearing about is selfies and how terrible defence lawyers are.
You can't use spin to call out spin.
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Actually it wasn't her as a defense lawyer that was called into question; it was the voluntary nature of it (casting aspersions on her integrity and ethics) and the lies around her being on the prosecution team when she was not (again questioning both ethics and integrity) - though there's little direct evidence she perpetrated those lies. And all of this because she made the ill-considered decision to pose in a photo with someone she was defending, someone that was later convicted on genocide charges.
Admittedly there was other spin in the article around her throwing equivalence-shade by presenting falsehoods as fact and a lot of questioning of her ethics, but to me that part of it is doing her job as a defense lawyer.
Frankly from reading that article, I don't actually have any issues with her acting as defense. The photo was a dumb idea by a young, inexperienced lawyer.