[realdifferent1]

why would any sane person want to devote his life to trying to spring hundreds, maybe even thousands, of felons?

Because that is not the job of a defense atty [in a perfect world]; it is to keep the state from 'Nifonging' defendents.

As I say, in a perfect world.

[Cecily]

I don’t know that criminal defense attorneys (not the Johnnie Cochran types) are trying to “spring” felons. They are trying to insure that this class of the accused has effective representation.