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[QUOTE="Capt. Tuttle, post: 2064061, member: 191"]
[QUOTE="tep624, post: 2063852, member:

try to develop a strategy to assist them in avoiding facing justice.[/QUOTE]

That is not the job.

The job is to make the other side prove the case. I have worked on cases where I had to do all I could to get evidence tossed: DNA taken from sheets which had been washed and slapped in for 6 months after the incident, trying to have testimony struck because a victim had oppositional defiant disorder, and was (our position) inherently unreliable.  And this guy was a POS.

I have also worked on civil cases where guys spent time in prison for crimes they absolutely did not do.

They went to prison because their defense attorneys did not do everything they could, within the bounds of the law and their state's legal ethics (not their personal mores) to make sure the other side actually proved their case.

If we don't want the government to be able to just jail anyone, a strong adversarial system is necessary.

Sometimes bad guys go free, but it is never the fault of the defense attorney. It means the prosecution didn't prove its case.

Justice is a fair process, not a result.
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