Do you think defense attorneys who defend cops who unjustly killed Black people—or people in general—are ‘bad people’? Like the lawyer who defended the cop that killed Sonya Massey—were they ‘bad people’?
Do you think defense attorneys who defend cops who unjustly killed Black people—or people in general—are ‘bad people’? Like the lawyer who defended the cop that killed Sonya Massey—were they ‘bad people’?
In a world where defense attorneys are a necessity, and they currently are (with no feasible change coming any time soon), then every attorney must provide the best defense they can do their client, period.
It doesn’t matter who it is, what they’re accused of, or if they’re guilty. Everyone is supposed to have access to an attorney that will serve their best interests. You can’t have a legal system that involves trials at all and not have all defendants given acces to a full and proper defense.
Any lawyer that can’t mount a defense for the most vile human ever to walk the earth would need to be disbarred because everyone has the right to representation, or nobody can trust that their rights matter. And yeah, the system fails a lot, but not because of defense attorneys doing their job.
Literally, if fucking Hitler was to go on trial, his attorneys should be expected to mount the best defense possible. Anything else is bullshit.