I'm possibly going to be doing forensic psychology including assessing competence of defendants and at some point I'm going to have to show that someone who committed a crime is sane and know he or she will get a long prison sentence, even if I like the person or think there's mitigating circumstances but the court doesn't agree. So I'm not responsible for their ultimate fate but I could possibly stop it in a way others couldn't. That sucks a lot. But it's necessary, because there are people who aren't competent and shouldn't have a trial. You can't have a system that works for the later group without it 'working' for the former group, too.
It's possible and maybe probable that Clinton went beyond what many lawyers would have, but I find it hard to hold it against her campaign because it doesn't much matter to her being a competent president.
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