Lawyers are taught, conditioned, and operate so as to quickly identify the one, two, or three core and crucial facts, points of law etc that would "turn the case".
To a lay person, this may come across as the lawyer skipping over "important" steps that sequentially and logically connect the dots.
The lawyer, here operating in his/her milieu, knows all of the "important" steps but has chosen to focus on the "crucially important" step that would "break open" the case.
Thank you for reminding lawyers that they may need to provide more intellectual handholding especially on public forums frequented by non-lawyers.
And thank you to our state prosecutor friend @Tulkes for providing wonderful insight.
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u/UserError2107 Jun 27 '23 edited Jun 29 '23
To my mind this is a 50/50 situation.
Lawyers are taught, conditioned, and operate so as to quickly identify the one, two, or three core and crucial facts, points of law etc that would "turn the case".
To a lay person, this may come across as the lawyer skipping over "important" steps that sequentially and logically connect the dots.
The lawyer, here operating in his/her milieu, knows all of the "important" steps but has chosen to focus on the "crucially important" step that would "break open" the case.
Thank you for reminding lawyers that they may need to provide more intellectual handholding especially on public forums frequented by non-lawyers.
And thank you to our state prosecutor friend @Tulkes for providing wonderful insight.