Hi, everyone. This Q directly goes to people who are lawyers or lawyers-to-be. Before I ask, I want to make clear that by no means, I hold grudge or hatred against lawyers by asking these Qs. In fact, I know there are many great lawyers in our society who work not for money but rather to help disadvantaged people defend themselves and contribute to this society. I have nothing but the greatest respect for lawyers like Richard Bernstein who is blind personal injury lawyer and works on promoting equality and helping disadvantaged, handicapped people despite his own tremendous handicaps.
As for my Qs, as a person who loves watching CourtTV and "Law and Order", I always had hard time understanding about certain facets of criminal attorneys. I have hard time understanding why certain lawyers would even think about defending murderers, rapists, arsonists, corrupt CEOs, who have done great disservce to society and brought tremendous pains to many people. If I were a lawyer, I would never even consider defending them no matter how much money I am offered for defending them. Just looking at what kind of crimes they have inflicted on other people, I wonder why certain lawyers make decision to go defend them in criminal trials.
My Qs for you guys is two-fold.
1. Do lawyers defend all those criminals who have committed heinous acts toward society because they believe they are wrongly accused or because of money? Why would any lawyer defend people like Scott Peterson, Timothy McVeigh, etc.? Do lawyers defending them truly believe they are innocent or even have some sympathy toward them?
2. I know Court assigns public defender to defedants who can't afford attorney. How much difference has it made? Did it help in finding defendants who were wrongly accused of crimes?
Thanks in advance for any insights.
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