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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just another plug for public defenders. The truly believe in the Constitution and the rights afforded everyone therein.  It is their job to put the prosecution through their paces to ensure a fair trial, that the evidence collected was legal, the jury is as unbiased as possible, etc.  They recognize that most of their clients are guilty, but our system requires due process. (at least it did before the current administration)  They are truly overworked and underpaid.  I had many friends from law school go into that type of work.  [/quote]
Eh, I know this is their spiel for why they do it, but going to trial and re-traumatizing victims in violent crimes and sexual assaults during cross-examination when you know your client did it and should cop a plea is never going to earn any respect from me. [/quote]

The client is the one that gets to choose whether to accept a plea or not.  You can't provide a subpar defense because you think they should have pled out.  [/quote]
Doesn’t change the fact that I have little to no respect for someone whose idea of providing an adequate defense to someone they know is guilty is trashing a rape victim or someone who’s been held up at gunpoint on cross-examination. [/quote]

On the topic of "most" cases: As a public defender, I can tell you that most of our clients are arrested for minor offenses related to being mentally ill or poor. This represents the vast majority of charged cases. For serious offenses, most of the time the police have no idea what happened and just throw together a story based on whatever they can put together. We are regularly shocked by theories spun out of whole cloth. Many plead guilty just on the risk that the story will be believed because most people assume that everyone is guilty. Most cases plea out for one reason or the other, be it guilt or appearance of guilt, or a client's risk aversion.

Most crimes are high level economic or environmental crimes and are simply not investigated or prosecuted. This is where the bulk of thefts and deaths come from, if you are actually counting. They don't even get on the books because that is not the kind of theft or death law enforcement, or the general population, takes interest in. Most of us will happily be robbed by institutions. [/quote]

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