I doubt its about screwing over opposing counsel, more like better lawyering to get an outcome they can brag about to future clients. Im sure some or many want to do justice to the cases they accept, whatever the outcome
Do Prosecutors or Defense Attorney's or lawyers really care for their client? Or are they just more concerned about their stats and screwing over the opposition?
Submitted 2 days ago by Patnou@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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cheese_greater@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Depends on the person
hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world 2 days ago
About 95% care for their client. About 5% don’t, and those care for stats, screwing over the opposition or even just money or doing the least amount of work.
Though specifically criminal defense is such a thankless job because everybody hates you and even the court is often subconsciously biased against you, I can imagine people specifically in that role tend to be more idealistic, so that would mean maybe 98% of them care for their client.
They I should also say, attorneys generally only care about doing a good job, only a very tiny fraction would care enough for their client to get them into trouble with the state bar.
But yeah, I feel like lawyers get a bad rep because you gotta fight for your clients as written in the fifth amendment even if they turn out to be douche bags.