Plus there’s no such thing as obviously guilty until proven so.
Comment on Do you think defense attorneys who defend cops who unjustly killed people are ‘good’ people?
RamRabbit@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Our entire system is built on both the prosecution and defense having a competent lawyer. You get dumb shit like mistrials if the defense attorney is incompetent.
qualia@lemmy.world 6 days ago
bizarroland@lemmy.world 6 days ago
The purpose of a defender for an obviously guilty person is to make sure that all of the rules of law are followed during the prosecution so that the criminal does not have an opportunity to attempt to overthrow the court proceedings or to otherwise exculpate themselves because of a technical flaw in the legal proceedings.
It is annoying, true, and it feels unjust that a guilty person should be defended, but it is important that we defend even the guilty on the odd chance that it turns out that they are actually innocent.
The saying goes, it is better that 100 guilty men go free than 1 innocent person be condemned.
Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
Word, brother. This is the way.