| | ...that one day, my colleagues and I will [one day] represent real people, here's a sobering reminder.
Currently, I'm in the middle of writing a moot court brief about a fictitious person in a fictitious town in Texas. Sparing the details, this quarter's competition is a criminal case. So, in preparation to write this brief, I read Miller v. State of Texas, in which the facts took place in 1982. Miller was convicted of murder and sentenced to death, and I read the Texas Court of Appeals case upholding that conviction and sentence.
I'd heard it was supposed to get cold in a couple of days, so I logged onto a local TV station's website. The State of Texas executed Donald Miller tonight while I worked on this brief.
"The law must be stable, yet it cannot stand still." -Roscoe Pound, 1922
The law is often represented by the owl, to represent the wisdom that (hopefully) our profession espouses, and the turtle, to represent that, just as 'slow and steady wins the race,' the law's slow but steady progress strives for justice - or as close to Justice as man may come.
The law is always moving - yet it moves so slow and steadily that it is often undiscernible to those without a personal stake in the outcome. Tonight, I noticed the law's movement, and I would imagine this is one of those ways in which law school will undoubtedly change me.
-AJR
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