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’?
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.
Defending the obviously guilty is essential.
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.
Word, brother. This is the way.
Plus there’s no such thing as obviously guilty until proven so.