[Uncle Hal]

There must be more to the story than this. Why would a lawyer throw away his career for this? Did he get money or what? Very strange. He most certainly will be disbarred and loose his right to practice law.

[johnmark7]

The thrill of the game was too delicious for him to pass up. A lot of big money, well paid, defense lawyers crack up, sabotage their lives, go off the deep end. Their egos are huge, their intoxication with their Self is enormous, they feel invincible and want to see how much they can get away with.

There seems to be something about defense lawyering that brings out the latent criminal inside them. Getting a**holes off scott free or nearly so takes a kind of subtle toll. Call it subconscious guilt for undermining their society, betraying the tribe, and letting the wolves into the herd.

You can't help scumbags, liars, thugs, punks, and so on and not have it affect you.

Prostitutes get hard real quick, and become really nasty skanks in no time at all. The same with these defense lawyers.