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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
He did, and its been debated that his closing in the case was among the most grotesque things every scripted and allowed to pollute the air of a courthouse. That and the expert he relied on was full of shit.
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You can read about the case here:
http://www.monkeytime.org/lakey.html (spree: a collection of excerpts on the case from the Raleigh News & Observer). Experts had little to do with the case. I think the jury was persuaded mainly by the fact that so many other people had been killed/maimed in similar accidents, which could have been prevented by simply
putting some fucking screws in the fucking drain cover.
I linked this not because I wanted to discuss Edwards' merits as a trial lawyer (by all accounts, he was really, really good). I found it interested that Drudge posted this story with the linK "SHOCK: Little Girl Disembowled by Pool Drain" (or something like that). Trial lawyers are a favorite target of Drudge and his ilk, and yet they are SHOCKED when someone gets maimed by a defective product.
Who should they trust to put an end to this SHOCK? They want smaller government, so Congress/Adminstrative Agencies are out. Pool drain (and other consumer product) manufacturers have proven they can't be trusted. Who is left to make sure little children can play in a wading pool without having their intestines sucked out of their bodies and being fed from a tube in through their chests for the rest of their lives?
