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Thread ID: 11606 | Posts: 6 | Started: 2003-12-26
2003-12-26 00:57 | User Profile
I was flipping through the channels, when I say a lawyer presenting evidence on Court TV and I said "hey I've met that guy before!"
Edgar Steel was part of a three hour trial footage collection that was played pretty much all day long Christmas Eve.
2003-12-26 19:17 | User Profile
Sorry I missed. What was the name of the show? Maybe they'll re-run.
2003-12-29 14:51 | User Profile
It was the McGuckin trial. The parents who abducted their own kids from Social Service Workers at gunpoint. The trial footage is actually very boring to watch. I just watched bits and pieces of it. They played it for six hours Christmas Eve.
The lawyers giving commentary said that Edgar Steele's client was a textbook example of what not to do in court. They said Steele was giving an unorthodox defense, because there wasn't much he could do with a client like that.
I found a press release from Steele online. Steele said he eventually gave up on the McGuckin's because of there refusal to co-operate with him despite giving them absolutely free legal representation.
A fund for the McGuckins' which totalled an amazing $32,000 was mostly returned to the donors by Steele. Steele used $1,000 to buy clothes and Christmas presents for the three kids and put $9,000 in a trust fund for them. The funny part was that the public defender for the McGuckins' tried to tell Steele that he should get the money.
2003-12-29 15:14 | User Profile
I thought honest lawyers were extinct?
2003-12-31 04:22 | User Profile
heritagelost,
I think you may be getting the McGuckin and Christine cases mixed up? Both just made me sick; the state had no reason to bother these families in the first place.
2003-12-31 15:32 | User Profile
Which case is Christine?