Re: LAW: Bar Associations and Monopolies (Was: POL: Reaction to Microsoft Ruling)

From: Zero Powers (zero_powers@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon Apr 17 2000 - 18:38:30 MDT


>From: Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com>
>
> > While I stand by my original comparison, I would point out that we're
>not
> > really talking about the mere practice of law, which *anyone* is allowed
>to
> > do, whether or not they have any legal education whatsoever, so long as
> > one's only client is oneself...
>
>Even that's not true. The Supreme Court just recently held that a
>defendant _does not have the right to defend himself_ on appeals.

>From what I know of appellate procedure, good thing for the defendant.

-Zero

"I like dreams of the future better than the history of the past"
--Thomas Jefferson

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