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Message: [QUOTE="Capt. Tuttle, post: 2040266, member: 191"] DAs and police hide witnesses, evidence and present half truths. Without defense lawyers, the government would put away who it wants. I once was assigned to do an appeal for a guy. The appellate court agreed with me that he was convicted of a crime that doesn't exist. He did 20 months in state prison, before I won his appeal, and got him out of prison and exonerated. Look up on the case of Baba Ali, or all the good work of the innocence project. Government is a necessary evil which must be kept in check. Defense lawyers are part of that. Sometimes, we represent bad people who did bad things. That's just part of the job. You can't do less than your best, no matter the client. [/QUOTE]