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I am sure there a lot of cynical defense attourneys.
But a lot of cynical people are actually highly idealistic, they have just seen ideals twisted by people with social agendas.
Kind of like some of the never ending founder debates on here . . . "what would your founding ideals say about you having sex with lots of women . ." or something.
I believe a lot of defense attourneys really do idealize the Consititution.
Defense attourneys will also say that they aren't protecting their clients per se, they are defending due proces of law.
By defending due process of law they are defending all of us.
What they are saying is that the State's case, or the Government's case already has a lot of weight to it.
Most people believe that you would not have been arrested or charged if you hadn't done anything wrong.
That creates an immediate bias in the eyes of jurors and the media.
What the defense will do a lot of is reviewing the steps that the police and prosecution took and look for flaws where human corruption and human error may be leading to a false guilty verdict or a situation where the prosecution gets the correct verdict but had to violate the process and civil rights all to hell to do it.
Also, defense attourney's are very aware that innocent people go to prison. Especially people that are unable to afford good representation.
Defense attourneys are also aware that prosecutors live to get convictions and that stronger sentences "look" better on their record.
So sometimes Defense attounreys are compelled to get their client completely off because they are being charged for a level of crime out of proportion to what they really did. With an incredibly stiff sentence.
Think three time loser laws where a shoplifting crime can get you 20 years to life.
Taking this into consideration I believe that defense attourneys are among the noblest of proffessions. the only thing that sucks is that alot of them are probably not very good.
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