I truly don’t know what it’s gonna take to make the general public understand that a defense attorney’s job is not to prove the client’s innocence, it’s to protect the client’s rights
The public defender discourse is a great example of how people dress up their reactionary impulses in faux-left pseudo-intellectual gibberish and of how easily sensible people with better things to do get sucked into dead-end arguments with rock-headed sophomores on the internet.