re: Question for judges and attorneys...Where does your morality (if any) come into play ?

The purpose of a criminal defense lawyer is to ensure the integrity of the system by making sure the government plays by the same set of rules for all accused- both the guilty and the innocent.

You spend every moment on TD. I’m not convinced you’re representing shite.

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Huh?

Whatever you tell yourself to let you sleep at night.

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Dude you sound retarded

He's being perfectly reasonable. A defense attorney is supposed to defend their client. Not gift the prosecution an easy win because the defendant may have done something bad.

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Remember!

No lawfare with your post.

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Lawfare? Why are changing the discussion?

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You are caught putting the cart before the horse.

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No. Just exposing internal biases masquerading as objectivity

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You use your profession as an excuse to ignore morality.

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I believe in morality in my personal life.

I also understand morality and the law are 2 very different and separate things.

Again, you did not prove what you think you did.

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Or or you have no morality or moral compass.

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You seem to perceive life only through the letter of the law.

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No I spoke only of the profession of the law being perceived through the letter of the law.

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You use your profession as an excuse to ignore morality.

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The more likely reality: you aren't very smart

How do you apply your individual morality to a macro system with thousands of moving parts, inputs, outputs, and varying factual scenarios?

Much less SFP’s or mine or anyone else’s?

Your question lies on a faulty premise.

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Look...Another one that lacks a moral compass.

Has honor and human decency left you sir?

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Let's throw out a hypothetical

You're a defense attorney and you "think" that your client is guilty but you don't know for sure. What do you do in that case?

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No. Just exposing internal biases masquerading as objectivity

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Tell me you have no common sense without telling me you have no common sense.

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I know this. I guess the better question is: Can you knowingly defend a guilty criminal because it's "your profession"?

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Yes I could knowingly defend a guilty criminal. Most accused criminals did the thing they’re accused of doing.

I don’t do criminal defense work, bc I don’t want to have to hang out with violent scary gross people. It would scare me and make me squeamish and I’d be scared to be in the same room as my own client. So, I probably would be conflicted. Meaning, I’m concerned that I would be too emotionally put off to provide the zealous defense my client, and the rest of us need to be able to depend on an atty’s ability to do that bc the rest of us would just get rickrolled.

I wish I were less of a ninny, but I know myself. I’m scared of raccoons and possums in my attic, you think I wouldn’t be petrified of some gangbanger??

I could do white collar criminal defense, however. Usually nobody is raped or dead, and the defendant is usually a dirtbag. Even if my client were a dirtbag, he deserves a defense. And some of those rules are disproportionately enforced against smaller businesses when companies that are really corrupt aren’t ever charged with anything.

For example: I’d have been willing to represent the Exxon Valdez Captain, but not Exxon. BC Exxon and the DOJ/EPA would be looking for a freaking scapegoat.