I hear all this nonsense all the time, but lawyers are proxies for their clients, remember that.
Quite so, be those clients the gummit or the accused.
The result looks and plays like a Monopoly game, with the judge as referee. I don't see too many prosecutors ashamed of the cost, anguish, and trouble they have caused accuseds whose juries come back in half an hour and say not guilty. Appeals are referred to as "bites of the apple."