Devils Advocate - France

November 2009

Fascinated by evil and with a talent for breaking taboos, Jacques Verges is known as The Devils Advocate. Believing that even the worst criminals need a lawyer, Verges enjoys fighting on the dark side.
A lawyer who refuses to defend an accused person is like a doctor who would refuse to treat an AIDS patient because he is against certain sexual practices. Eighty-three year old Verges finds wrong-doers a challenge and hes determined to understand their motives. "I fight for the dignity of man. In every man there is a remnant of humanity. His latest client is Khieu Samphan, the former head of state in the Khmer Rouge regime.

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[lejink]

lawyers who defend the worst criminals deserve a lot more respect.. i listened to an interview with a lawyer defending a local accused rapist. callers were asking "how could you do this? what if this man raped your kids"

of corse they think that! if a lawyer can forget their own judgement and provide the best defence possible they are supporting the integrity of the legal system just as much as the prosecutor.

if he gives a poor defence the accused will get a retrial and possible acquittal

[exoticgolfholidays]

Shame the commentator cannot pronounce 'Khmer', 'Phnom' and 'Nihilistic'.

Still, another very interesting story from JM

[loszhor]

It's hard for some people to not want evil people to have fair trials but we become no better if we just drag them out and lynch them.

[PawelKolasa]

He lies to himself just like those whom he defends. He think this is an intellectual challenge to trample upon victims, under the pretense of fairness.

A person deserve fair trial as long as there is a reasonable ground that, he is innocent.

Defending a criminal solely to have fun with the system is criminally insane.

Criminally insane person can't tell right from wrong. He is like a rabbid dog hurting the hand that feeds him. He defends people who would kill him.

An ultimate fool.

[xanderthegreatt]

lol he sure has a lot of chess sets

[hannahskm]

I'm sure the convicted criminals who hire him.. pay him a large sum of money.

[AstridToppinen]

when he says accused - he actually means guilty

[kefkahkefkah]

Yeah i agree with you. If there was any justice, they would go a one on one fight with each of the victims relatives, "slow dancing" in a cell..now that would be justice

[blackxavior]

A persons humanity is not on trial . The persons actions/ decisions are on trial. This is just another scumbag trying to rationalize.

[mozart116]

song name pl0x?

[TheSilverSultan4]

His surrounding scary me, lol, but fitting his style I guess,

[goliathlup1]

Come on did you notice the age of the people he defended? I cant think of any way you can really sentence those people. They got away with it!