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’?

  • Rivalarrival@lemmy.today
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    1 day ago

    Well, they’re lawyers, so they’re automatically scumbags. That being said, I don’t think you can judge a generic criminal defense attorney on their choice in clients.

    I do think you can judge an attorney on their scope of practice. Copyright trolls are among the worst.