Knight’s Probation
Re “Prosecutor Probed on Rap Mogul’s Probation,” Oct. 25:
It’s depressing enough when lawyers openly lie or distort facts to win cases. At least they can wrap themselves in the time-honored “justification” that every accused is entitled to the best defense available.
Even more maddening is to listen to the statements of a prosecutor, such as Lawrence M. Longo, when talking about “no special treatment” for [Death Row Records owner and] convicted felon Marion “Suge” Knight (who just happens to be renting a home from me, blah blah blah, has signed my daughter to his record label, blah blah blah, dealt with my lawyer son on both deals, blah blah blah). Longo sounds like the defense lawyers of our time, turning upside down the most basic rules of right and wrong, common sense and simple human decency to gain acquittals.
The price we are paying is a slow but sure perception that the legal system cannot be trusted to deliver justice to society. What is needed are some adjustments (not a mass overhaul) to the legal system that drive the process toward the discovery of truth and away from the unending lies in the pursuit of “winning.” I challenge the legal community itself to lead the way.
DAN HUNTINGTON
Sherman Oaks
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