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Everybody Hates the Auburn Tree Killer

By 11W Staff - 23 February 2011
6 Comments

Three lawyers have now asked to be taken off the case. (With Leather)

Source withleather.uproxx.com/2011/02/everybody-hates-the-auburn-tree-killer

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Comments

yrro on 23 Feb 2011 - 10:01am #

I love how these guys can put aside their personal feelings about murder, rape, drug dealing, and robbery, but damned if they'll defend a guy who insulted their favorite college. Killing that tree was an *incredibly* shitty thing to do, but seriously guys.

Doc on 23 Feb 2011 - 10:58am #

Nailed it!

Jason Staff on 23 Feb 2011 - 12:26pm #

I think at least one of the public defenders had a conflict of interest with his wife on faculty at Auburn, but yeah, I agree with your point in a general sense.

ballgame on 23 Feb 2011 - 12:27pm #

It doesn't seem to be as much about personal feelings as it is about the relationship both of these attorneys have to the University. Being a professor at Auburn and being married to an employee of the university shows a potential conflict of interest. Similarly, if they were assigned to defend someone accused of murder, rape or robbery and the victim was their wife's or their own employer, I imagine they would probably ask the court to be excused from that representation as well.

yrro on 24 Feb 2011 - 10:52am #

Ah, the article I had read just said that he was a fan and a alumn, not that he had family working for the university. Still, all three of them did? Is that a requirement to be a public defender down there?