Is it moral to fight for those who have robbed, raped, and killed? If you were to succeed in defending them and they were released… how would you feel if they were to go out and commit another crime? I often think of these things when I ponder my future in the law field. When Judge Scott Miller told me with a straight face that he had no qualms about defending the guilty because it was not his job to decide if the defendant is guilty or not, I was rather surprised by his answer. I suppose I wanted him to be uncomfortable in answering. I wanted him to struggle with his morality because I think a job like being a trial lawyer requires some philosophical thought regarding the nature of the job. But he didn’t. Although I’m certain there was at least one time in his life in which he grappled to defend a woman or a man, over the years he seems to have certainly become comfortable with his previous job as a lawyer. Is this how our justice system is supposed to work? I find it rather jarring that a guilty woman could be freed on account of “good story-telling” or an ill-informed or biased jury. It’s disturbing, and yet I’m not incredibly deterred from going into the field of law. My goal with the prison system is to stop the mass imprisonment of black men who are often targeted and policed at a greater rate than white men even though both races commit crimes at similar rates. The largest issue for me, personally, is that it is almost expected and fully legal to discriminate against former inmates. How do we expect a thief to not re-offend if we take away her source of income? We end up creating these situations for people in which they are put in a worse situation after jail so that they are forced to continue suffering even though they have already served their time. So, although the idea of having a guilty man walk is upsetting, I’m still interested in being involved in the justice and prison system in some capacity. I guess it takes every man and woman who becomes apart of the justice system to fully understand that they don’t always wear the white hat and some criminals don’t get served with justice and some innocent people do. I don’t know if I’m okay with that yet. But I do know that I’m glad that Lawrence got to walk free…