I mean, I just don’t really understand how lawyers can defend rapists, child predators, murderers, etc. I think I would have to have a moral line somewhere.
I mean, I just don’t really understand how lawyers can defend rapists, child predators, murderers, etc. I think I would have to have a moral line somewhere.
The way I’ve heard it, they will give rotten people the best possible defence so they can’t appeal as easily.
Say you want to be an ethical defence attorney. So you tank your client’s cases because they’re rotten. First of all, they get appeals because their new lawyer can show where you messed up. Second, you don’t get new cases, so you go deeper into debt to pay off law school. Make it make sense.
I think a lot of new lawyers dabble in defence while reaching for more lucrative work, because law school is expensive and they want more of their paycheck to go to paying the bills, and eventually buying nice things.