If I received a dollar every time a new acquaintance said, "oh my gosh, how can your husband defend guilty people," I would be rich. I politely tell them (while seething inside), that there is a quaint notion that people are presumed innocent until proven guilty. There is so much about the criminal "justice" system that lay people don't know about. Articles like this need to be shared far and wide!
And, yes, probably of all the things I hear that bother me the most, it's this idea that defense work is somehow "dirty". It's ironic because when it comes to playing dirty, I've never seen anyone do it as seriously and with as much determination as a judge or a prosecutor.
If I received a dollar every time a new acquaintance said, "oh my gosh, how can your husband defend guilty people," I would be rich. I politely tell them (while seething inside), that there is a quaint notion that people are presumed innocent until proven guilty. There is so much about the criminal "justice" system that lay people don't know about. Articles like this need to be shared far and wide!
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And, yes, probably of all the things I hear that bother me the most, it's this idea that defense work is somehow "dirty". It's ironic because when it comes to playing dirty, I've never seen anyone do it as seriously and with as much determination as a judge or a prosecutor.