I agree with O'Reilly. I've tried and tried to fix in my mind how an attorney with a SHRED of decency could possibly work to get a child-murderer off. They were working for the plea-bargain, they knew Westerfield was guilty.
Yet after the plea-bargain fell through, their "duty" to their monster of a client was more "important" than their duty to justice?
We are a sick, sick society when so many people think this notion is perfectly fine.
Defense counsel do not have a "duty" to justice. They have a duty to represent their client. Those of you who are so ignorantly condemning defense counsel for ... *gasp* ... presenting a defense seem to have no consideration for the basic principles of our system of justice. And freaking clue how your silly opinions would destroy it.