[Valpal1]

O'Reilly is being a twit. Everyone, including the guilty, are constitutionally entitled to counsel.

Someone has to represent the guilty. No defense lawyer can represent only the innocent. There aren't that many.

Stop watching Perry Mason. Hamilton Berger would have been booted out of office if he had that many mistaken prosecutions in real life.

[Aquinasfan]

Someone has to represent the guilty.

So a verdict of "not guilty" can be returned? What in your mind is the purpose of a trial?

[bvw]

Is "Ironsides" ok? (Jusr kidding .... What does Maximus O'Reilly think we should have in place of defense lawyers who defnd? Trial by immersion? Come up still breathing and you're exonerated?)

[connectthedots]

O'Reilly is being a twit. Everyone, including the guilty, are constitutionally entitled to counsel.

O'Reilly is an idiot. He just doesn't understand that a defense attorney's job is simply to make sure the state proves its case against the defendant. If the state does its job, and the defendant actually committed the crime charged, a guilty verdict will almost always be the result.