Columbia Law Lets Those “Traumatized” by Garner Verdict Delay Exams

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This is law school which means we’re dealing with people who are legal adults in every sense of the word. Some of their counterparts are in combat in Afghanistan or married with several kids.

It’s bad enough that schools treat children this way, but now we’re Peter Panning further into permanent childhood.

The grand juries’ determinations to return non-indictments in the Michael Brown and Eric Garner cases have shaken the faith of some in the integrity of the grand jury system and in the law more generally. For some law students, particularly, though not only, students of color, this chain of events is all the more profound as it threatens to undermine a sense that the law is a fundamental pillar of society designed to protect fairness, due process and equality.

I doubt the average Columbia Law student believes that. The average Columbia Law prof certainly doesn’t.

Furthermore the real lesson of both of these verdicts is the great value of liberal lawyers that the law protects the presumption of innocence for suspects. With these cases, liberals suddenly insisting on adopting the victims first rhetoric of a lot of conservatives which is incoherently hypocritical.

In recognition of the traumatic effects these events have had on some of the members of our community, Dean Greenberg-Kobrin and Yadira Ramos-Herbert, Director, Academic Counseling, have arranged to have Dr. Shirley Matthews, a trauma specialist, hold sessions next Monday and Wednesday for anyone interested in participating to discuss the trauma that recent events may have caused .

Columbia Law is bringing in a trauma specialist for adults who haven’t actually experienced anything. They just watched television.

The law school has a policy and set of procedures for students who experience trauma during exam period. In accordance with these procedures and policy, students who feel that their performance on examinations will be sufficiently impaired due to the effects of these recent events may petition Dean Alice Rigas to have an examination rescheduled.

Just wait till these special snowflakes make it to a courtroom.

  • tagalog

    Wait until they meet a competitive opposing counsel or a judge who likes to put the lawyers who appear before him/her through their paces. They get traumatized over grand jury decisions? Wait until they get into the courtroom.

    Trial lawyers eat trauma for breakfast, then go try cases.

    • Bamaguje

      It’s really insulting to the intelligence and mentality of the law students.
      Soon we’ll need “trauma specialists” to watch horror movies.

  • Brewster

    When I need a lawyer (or a doctor) I tend to stay away from the affirmative action hires, but the schools keep minting new ones at an accelerating pace..

    • andrewwhitehead

      Yeah…I saw an “affirmative action” doctor several years ago. NEVER again.

    • Bamaguje

      But you have an Affirmative Action president.

  • cxt

    Its really no wonder ISIS etc thinks they can beat us.

  • http://ruleofreason.blogspot.com/ Edward Cline

    I wasn’t traumatized by the Brown and Garner Grand Jury non-indictments. But then, I never went to college. Not even to law school. I still have all my marbles.

  • EileenRight

    The wussification of America’s youth.

    • Bamaguje

      Wussification of the not-so-intelligent American intelligentsia.

  • ModeratelyDisorganized

    I’m choosing to laugh. These law students/profs who take the school up on the offer are so pathetic. Pore widdle tings! Rather than making the Michael Brown case a subject of study, they assume the MSM reported the truth and Brown really did have his hands in the air surrendering. Not a one of them should be allowed to graduate with this kind of reasoning infecting their brains.

  • badenguru

    Now I can take time off when I miss picking Power Ball the trama of losing is overwhelming.

  • http://libertyandculture.blogspot.com/ Jason P

    “With these cases, liberals suddenly insisting on adopting the victims first rhetoric of a lot of conservatives which is incoherently hypocritical.”

    That paragraph is worth a whole article. Perhaps I missed it but I haven’t seen any commentary on this hypocrisy. Those of us old enough can remember the history. Let’s review:

    Back in the 1960s there was something called the Warren Court. In case after case, the court overturned convictions that weren’t properly adjudicated. New “rights” were discovered that protected the accused and allowed vicious criminals to walk. Miranda was a vicious rapist. Conservative “law and order” commentators argued that it would be harder to convict criminals. The “civil rights” advocates argued that it is better that a dozen criminals go free if it prevents one innocent person from incarceration.

    Now we are hearing that the failure to get a jury to rule against the defendant means that the system failed. It’s interesting how no comparison is made to legacy of the Warren Court. Isn’t this the achievement of the last 50 years of court rulings that protects the accused?

  • Shadowwind

    I need to try this at my school. I’ll just explain that my calc and physics knowledge isn’t as good as it should be due to societal racism and all that jazz. And then I’ll probably get a nice slap in the face.

  • truebearing

    “For some law students, particularly, though not only, students of color, this chain of events is all the more profound as it threatens to undermine a sense that the law is a fundamental pillar of society designed to protect fairness, due process and equality.”

    The process of the grand jury only “undermined” their biases and wishes. It didn’t do anything to damage the justice sustem. Their idiot professors are the ones guilty of that. The brainwashed crybabies didn’t get their way, so they are curling up in the fetal position and feeling sorry for themselves. These infantile fools have no business being in the justice system.

    I don’t remember any special considerations for “trauma” when I was going to college. My creative writing teacher had a rule whereby you lost one full grade if you missed a class, no exceptions. These whiners aren’t mentally tough enough to deal with the law. That includes all of their hyphenated professors, deans, and counselors.

  • Daniel

    DanielG………”snowflakes”?!!!
    Beautiful…….keep it up.

  • mobuyus

    Has someone been trafficking soft pills at the universities?

  • andrewwhitehead

    I can see them in the courtroom a few years for now, “Your Honor, I can’t conduct the defense of my client because I stubbed my toe this morning. I need to consult a trauma specialist…I should be OK in six to seven months.”
    It might fly in California, but not in a courtroom run by a judge who isn’t insane.

    • Larry Larkin

      It will be more like “I saw someone else stub their toe this morning”.

  • http://raycaruso.com/ Ray Caruso

    Anyone taking part in the hands-up-don’t-shoot charade should be denied a law license. They are not of good character.

  • MrUniteUs1

    Toda to Rabbis protesting the Eric Garner killing and grand jury decision.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/05/rabbis-arrested-eric-garner-protest_n_6276522.html