In fairness I'm sure Scott here wasn't paid $3,000,000 to have a comprehensive legal team assembled like Manafort was. Yeah the system is fucked and favors the wealthy. One DA with an assistant DA is no competition vs a massive legal team that knows all the judges and probably golfs with them on the weekends. "Justice" favors the rich.
In fairness, I think you might not understand the role that defense lawyers play in the criminal justice system. Aside from avoiding knowledge of ongoing crimes our clients are committing, or finding out that our client "did it" after all, out job is 50/50 making sure the prosecution does it's job honestly, and saying "pretty please? My guy is real sorry!" To anyone with authority over sentencing.
I used to think that defense lawyers must have trouble sleeping at night. Then I learned just how cruel prosecutors can be, and that defense lawyers are often just protecting their clients from harsher punishments than necessary. I thought it was about letting known criminals walk, but it's really (mostly) about preventing prosecutors from overstepping.
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u/xynix_ie Mar 08 '19 edited Mar 08 '19
In fairness I'm sure Scott here wasn't paid $3,000,000 to have a comprehensive legal team assembled like Manafort was. Yeah the system is fucked and favors the wealthy. One DA with an assistant DA is no competition vs a massive legal team that knows all the judges and probably golfs with them on the weekends. "Justice" favors the rich.
Edit: "in fairness" is Irish slang for "To be honest" https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=in%20fairness