I made that up and you knew it as soon as you read it, probably making it - if not the, then a very close contender for the shortest lie in the world.
By which I don't mean to suggest there's no such thing as an honest lawyer, surely there is but chances are he long ago sobered up, left the bar and took up a trade like carpentry or ....
Which would imply that he's no longer a lawyer and probably proves again the lie, but these are mere sticking points and before we paint all lawyers as thieves, criminals and sociopaths let's bow our heads for a moment and consider the carpenters.
A link: http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Took+girl+cash+lawyer/4481302/story.html, Calgary Herald, similar reported in the Sun, that a convicted Pedophile and violent offender who abducted a 10 year old girl from a Calgary Shopping Mall did so, argued the lawyer, to get cash to buy drugs.
I am not making this up. Incidentally, Mr. Convicted Pedophile is also HIV positive.
Now in this opening argument every flaw in our legal system is made painfully, acutely obvious. Every single one. And the only thing I can say is that while the defendant surely deserves hanging (and worse), so does as well his lawyer, the judge who allowed the lawyer to finish that sentence, the judge who sentenced the defendant previously and allowed a sentence light enough that he one day walked free, in fact, almost everyone that's had anything to do with this case....
But such is Canadian Justice. If you ever want justice, real justice, start by killing the Judges and the Lawyers.