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

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How do you present "the truth" at trial?

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Tell a story that the jury believes.

Well, I didn't want to call him out specifically...

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Does justice prevail regardless of which way a 5-4 decision goes?

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Justice prevails depending on who’s looking at the situation. There’s no universal standard of justice.

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Does justice prevail

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To lawyers, $$$=Justice.

They'll sell out for a buck faster than strippers.

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Why would you mix morality and the law?

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You think you can separate them?

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Morality doesn't really come into play there, either.
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Yours or theirs?
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Both

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SFP, whoever your mentor source was for that tenet did you a major disservice.

I'd hope the original messaging intent was to convey downplay of morality under assertion that every client deserves a full-throated defense regardless of personal belief, habit, or pursuit. e.g., Adam's defense of British soldiers was not popular, but it was exemplary.

In that regard, your field is not unique. Mine demands a similar approach. My responsibility is to provide best care to patients regardless of their personal appeal or repugnance. It is an interdisciplinary relational premise both intellectually and in practice.

Where you, and others in your field, jump the shark is in application of the same proposition to legal practitioners themselves. Lying is immoral. Unethical conduct is immoral. Of course those concepts should "come into play" in the practice of law. Practitioners guilty of such should be opposed, and vigorously addressed from a disciplinary standpoint.

Tolerance of the shirking of ethics, truth, and justice in pursuit of a legal outcome is the cornerstone of a broken, banana-republic legal system. Far too often, instead of being derided and shutdown, such behavior is lauded by your colleagues when it leads to favorable, or near-favorable, outcome in their behalf.

Until those issues are corrected, the reputation of American law will suffer hardily, as it should.

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tend to park my morality at the door, but I do not and may not park ethics. Two completely different things.

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This is what I think confuses a lot of people when they shite on lawyers.

If a lawyer is representing me I want a borderline immoral POS that has no regard for attacking character/agenda etc. of the people coming after me, but do it ethically so it all sticks.

My divorce attorney was like that and had no problem attacking my ex wife in court, it left her side reeling and worked out well for me as I got primary custody.

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a large chunk of the disdain for the profession comes from the ambulance chaser set.

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Perhaps that was the case previously.

But obvious uneven application of law w/ the Trump, J6, George Floyd, and Matthew Dolloff crap represents a seachange in legal approach public perception.

IMO, it's done damage to law in similar fashion to the reputational damage Covid inflicted on American medicine

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You are a criminal defense attorney?

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Among other things.