ABA is Owned By Criminal Defense Bar

That’s the precious assertion found in an interesting ABA Journal on-line story on a Louisiana federal court case considering the proper representation of capital defendants (is one lawyer enough?)  One Louisiana prosecutor had testified that prosecutors are discouraged from joining the ABA so its defense-ridden “standards” can’t be thrown back in their faces. The ABA is predominantly comprised of criminal defense lawyers! Now a criminal defense attorney in that federal hearing wants the record to reflect an affidavit by the current Chair of the ABA’s Criminal Justice Section, refuting that claim to bias and membership-skewing in the ABA.  [Here is the Journal’s link to the Motion to Expand and its proferred affidavit.]

Did you know the ABA was all sold out to the criminal defense bar?  I always assumed it was owned by car rental companies.  [Alan Childress]