Discuss law and lawyers.
We don’t know who’s guilty.
Sentences vary for the same offense. Guilty people need lawyers to argue for fair sentences and watch out for judges making mistakes.
We have enough laws that everyone is guilty of something. It may be a case of bias and selective enforcement.
Someone may be guilty of something but charged with something else or with multiple things that they didn’t do all of.
Smart, articulate criminals who are good at representing themselves in court would have a big advantage in a world where guilty people don’t have lawyers.
That’s true. When I originally shared that I think my mindset was on corporations who do bad things and people who represent them to help them not get in trouble for bad things. In my head criminal defense attorneys are good on a need by need basis but not on a continuous basis. Its weird to need a continuous defense team. I guess corporations don’t hire criminal defense lawyers on a continuous basis but they do have general lawyers to defend them against suits on a continuous basis.
But the lawyers shouldn’t do everything they can to reduce the sentences as much as they can? They shouldn’t for example try to prove innocence in court of a person they themselves believe to be guilty?
Should there exist state provided lawyers for people whom no private lawyer wants to represent?