Criminal lawyers? how did it make you feel when you got someone aquitted and later found then to be guilty?
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I am not a criminal defense lawyer, but am consider becoming one, had a lenghtly conversation with a public defender about this.
Typically you know before you get them aquitted not afterwards by the way.
But he is typically pissed at the ADA and police. He did his job - defend the rights of the accused. But typically when some one gets off it is because the police or the ADA didn't do theirs. They were sloppy and failed to preserve evidence or present and organized case.
I could not defend a guilty person. This is why I am studying corporate and environmental law and hope to be a negotiator.
Criminal lawyers are not entitled to let their personal feelings get in the way of doing their job, which is to put the best possible case for their client. There are many occasions when deep down the lawyer does not believe in the innocence of the client, but for as long as the client insists on his innocence and does not disclose any facts in his instructions which are inconsistent with a plea of not guilty, then one gets on with the job. When a barrister is briefed, he has no option but to accept the brief. Feelings don't come into it. Mercifully it is not his task to make the finding of guilt or otherwise. That's where the struggle with conscience lies.
I don't know, how does it feel to convict someone, execute them and then find out they are innocent!
We have a system of laws, and everyone is entitled to representation and to be tried by a jury of his/her peers under the constitution, whether you like it or not!!
Are you talking about OJ?
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