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OwlFancier posted:Don't wanna get poo poo for defending dickheads don't be a lawyer. Seems pretty simple. You don't make exceptions for due process and part of due process is getting to have a lawyer present. Defense lawyers also aren't 100% about trying to get the person cleared of charges; part of it is ensuring that the prosecution does their job properly and that the sentencing is actually fair if there's a guilty charge. Even in cases where the person is blatantly guilty as hell there should still be a defense lawyer present as prosecutors are still human. Bad poo poo is pretty much guaranteed to start happening when you start making exceptions on due process.
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Badger of Basra posted:Mild social disapproval is not creating an exception to due process. Actually it kind of is. If you can swing public opinion heavily against somebody because they defended a bad person then you end up with public optics being part of the consideration to defend somebody. For due process to function properly there needs to be a no exceptions, ever clause in it. That means even the worst people get to have lawyers, end of story, and we shouldn't judge somebody for defending a bad person. The reason for this is not to defend bad people but rather to defend not bad people. As soon as you make an exception you're pretty much guaranteed to have some poo poo nugget somewhere stuffing a crowbar in the exception and prying it open as far as they possibly can. Which is, incidentally, part of why lawyers have such a lovely reputation. The less scrupulous ones keep looking for those exceptions while holding a crowbar. Of course if the lawyer in question is a lovely person outside of their lawyering then fine, go ahead and judge them to hell and back for that. No problem there.
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