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Originally Posted by cc5k
You might be conveniently missing the point though. Who better than the defense lawyer to know if someone is guilty? What's unfortunate is that the lawyer has to defend someone he knows is guilty.
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Think of Johnny Cochran, F Lee Bailey and the Dream Team. A defense lawyer's job is to mount an often more than adequate defense for his client. His personal feeling supposedly have little to do with it. He might even know the lil sob is guilty, but because of the "attorney client" privilege, he supposedly is still committed to the oath he took to the Bar Association. There are severe penalties for those who knowingly and often unknowingly violate their oath of servitude to a client.
If you can't trust YOUR OWN damn lawyer, who can you trust?!
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Could you defend someone who was guilty and get them off the hook with a clean conscience?
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If I chose to take that job, CERTAINLY! Read my commentary in the latest issue of thedish on people who compromise, settle for crap and choose not to perform the duties they're paid to perform, especially public servants! "OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!"