Ke Wenzhe defended Lin Guozhang: Lawyers don’t choose their clients, just like doctors don’t choose their patients.

Ke Wenzhe, the founding chairman of the People's Party, went to Yilan to assist in the election today. (Photo by reporter Wang Junqi)

The KMT's candidate for Yilan County Mayor Wu Zongxian's camp recently criticized DPP candidate Lin Guozhang, saying that when he was a lawyer in the past, he defended defendants in major criminal cases such as sexual assault and fraud, questioning his "personality" as a "public interest lawyer". Faced with the political filth splashed by the Blue Camp, Ko Wenzhe, the founding chairman of the People’s Party, expressed his support in an interview today (26th) that “there is nothing strange about this.” He cited the past visits of Lian Shengwen and Shao Xiaoling to National Taiwan University Hospital as an example, stressing that “doctors don’t pick patients, and lawyers naturally don’t pick clients.”

As the election campaign draws to a close, the blue, green and white camps are engaging in political attacks and defenses against lawyers handling cases. Some representatives of the Democratic Party have been making aggressive moves in the past few days to criticize Lin Guozhang's past defense record, triggering local controversy over the positioning of "public interest lawyers". However, many people in the legal field believe that although the debate can continue, the bottom line of a legal society should be maintained, that is, "a lawyer's defense does not mean that he agrees with the defendant's behavior."

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In response to attacks by political opponents on Lin Guozhang's defense of defendants in major criminal cases, Ko Wenzhe bluntly said in an interview today, "There is nothing strange about this!" When he was a doctor at National Taiwan University, Hu Zhiqiang's wife Shao Xiaoling needed to wear a Ye Ke membrane, and he also went to support him. Lian Shengwen was shot. At that time, he was the director of the Department of Traumatology, and he was also the convener of the medical team for A-Bian Psychosis.

Ke Wenzhe said that people asked him if he was blue or green? But to him, "they" are all patients, and to the lawyer, "they" are the defendants. What's the point? This kind of thing does not need to be discussed. Although he does not know the details of the case, he feels that the doctor did not choose the patient, he just became the patient! As far as the lawyer is concerned, he is the defendant! He was just that kind of legal client, so he didn't think there was anything strange about it.