Philippine Bar Exam Results 2009 – 2010

it is undeniable that when you are NOT a lawyer or at least a law student, you will NEVER know what it means to be a lawyer… taking from an IGNORANT LAYMAN’S standpoint, you may ask why would a lawyer defend a person who, as all evidences point out, has killed his fellow human being when he should be put to jail for the rest of his life? why make everything so complicated when the facts are very clear that the your client has indeed killed someone? so the fact that you have NEVER been to a law school, you would just simply jump to the conclusion that lawyer’s are liars for trying to defend someone who has committed a wrong? am i right or am i right? as a law student, i always here these questions. at first, i managed to tolerate these ignorant questions. but it’s just that it’s getting too irritating. ok, so allow me to at least enlighten your poor soul about this matter in the most simplest way… first of all, a lawyer does not defend the personhood of the accused. rather, he defends his constitutional rights for even the most evil person on the face of this planet has constitutional rights. otherwise, we would all be living in anarchy and if this happens we would all have a first hand account experience of what it is like to be in hell. second, it is the client that narrates to the lawyer the facts and circumstances surrounding the incident. the lawyer only listens. the fact that there are several versions of the story is not the fault of the lawyer because like i said it is his client that narrates the story and not the lawyer. so who now is the liar? the layman who has never studied in a law school like you or the lawyer? third, what if the accused is indeed only guilty of reckless imprudence resulting to homicide but he is accused by the other party to have committed murder? what if the act constituted one of the grounds of justifying circumstances and there were really no aggravating circumstances? what if he was insane or intoxicated at the time he committed such act? wouldn’t that warrant a mitigating or alternative circumstance? of course you do not know anything of what i’m talking about because you don’t know anything about law which is also due to the fact that you’ve never been to a law school and which of course implies that you’re ignorant on that matter. so now without knowing anything about law, you start to come up with your own MISGUIDED and ERRONEOUS conclusion. so following your logic that lawyers are liars because they defend a person who has admittedly killed someone, and killing somebody is bad and defending a bad person is a liar and therefore a bad person does not deserve to be defended, anyone of us can thus be sentenced to reclusion perpetua when we are only liable for an indemnity for damages. of course again you don’t know any of the terms i mentioned because you’ve never been to a law school. i understand that. but you see law cannot be interpreted on the surface level. there are a lot of factors that need to be considered. these factors can be learned in law school but you’ve never been enrolled in law school therefore you don’t know these factors. am i right or am i right?

so before you say that lawyers are liars blah blah blah… you ask yourself first… WHAT DO YOU REALLY KNOW ABOUT LAW?

of course i’m not saying that all lawyers are clean. there are really those that cheat and they don’t deserve to be in this honorable profession. in the same way that doctors who cheat don’t deserve to be in a medical profession. in the same way that businessmen who cheat don’t deserve to engage in a business venture. in the same way that priests who raped young girls don’t deserve to be ministers of a highly respected and revered religious institution. so tell me, if lawyers cheat, which kind of profession does not? again this is not a justification but merely a point to ponder.

they say it is only in law school where you will learn to humble yourself, to accept the fact that you know nothing about what you’re saying and realize that you haven’t really learned anything from the day you were born.

it is true. i learned it the hard way. law school is the ego-crusher, the ego-destroyer, the ego-annihilator. your big head will be reduced to a size smaller than peanuts. that only happens in law school. so… WHAT DO YOU REALLY KNOW ABOUT LAW?