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Duncan case shameful

The Spokesman-Review

If I was an attorney I would be ashamed of my profession and the attorneys and judges and the handling of the Joseph Duncan case. It has become evident through the years that the attorneys handling this case and others are not going to kill their cash cow.

I can’t believe the attorneys and others involved in this professional fiasco can look themselves in the mirror in the morning. These trials on charges and no charges have gone beyond reality.

It’s time to put the gavel down on this confessed killer who wants to die and the attorneys who are continuing to ridicule their own profession with their appeals and trials.

You can bet your life, no pun intended, if the attorneys were doing this pro bono he would have paid his debt to society many years ago.

Like Michael Jackson, Joseph Duncan just won’t go away.

James A. Nelson

Spokane

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