lawyers..why do the rep guilty people????

Answer 1

They don't! They are only guilty when the Court has found them guilty!

Answer 2

Innocent til proven guilty lady. Everyone has the right to fair counsel. It's required by the constitution. Unless you favor a Gestapo system?

Also there is no rule that says to stop representing someone if they admit they are guilty. That's subjective. Guilty of what exactly? They could be indicted for murder and the client says, yes I did it but it was an accident. They should fight for a lesser charge. The lawyer has an ethical obligation to make sure that their client is still afforded due process.

Answer 3

Caicos by the way is wrong. Once a lawyer accepts a client, even one who admits having done the act in question, the entry of a not guilty plea does not permit the lawyer to withdraw or to reduce the zeal with which he defends the client.

Of course, he can't allow the client to take the stand and perjure himself, either.

Thomas More's son-in-law once was piqued with the saint's reasonable demeanor over several injustices, declaring indignantly "You would give the devil himself due process of law." St. Thomas replied "I would indeed...for my own sake. Take away due process of law and who among us could stand in the storm that would follow."

We see this now, writ large on the face of America, as warrants, trials, and all the trappings of the constitution are disregarded in the face of defending America from terrorism--terrorism which we in fact cooked up to serve our twisted objectives and now are oh! so upset! that the muhajadeen don't play nice.

There is no point in defending America if the constitution is lost in the process. We're becoming just like the Grossdeutsches Reich, and, unless we change, we will end up in history's ashbin just like the Hitlerites.

Answer 4

Oh come on!! Don't believe this innocent until guilty, and defending constitutional rights, and freedom.

There is one reason MONEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If they really cared about anything else they would be helping people for free. Some do, but very few. And sometimes that is just to become well known.

If it isn't for the money then why would they make a person mortgage their house and take out loans and go thousands of dollars in debt just so they can help the person?

Try calling an attorney for help, after they say to come into their office tell them that you have no money, and no means of getting any. See how much they want to help you then.

Answer 5

Because they are lawyers, not judges. In fact, professional etiquette requires any lawyer whose client states that he is guilty of the offence in question and then declines to plead guilty to the charge to stop representing him. All defence lawyers have represented people whom they suspected of being guilty, but while they don't actually know for a fact that this is so, they do their best for the client.

Answer 6

They are not guilty at the time the lawyers represent them. In America we are innocent until proven guilty.

Answer 7

I'm assuming that your question is asking why lawyers represent guilty people. Simple: because everyone has the right to an attorney under the law, and somebody's gotta do it.

Answer 8

Please? You kidding?

Let me see.... OK...... You see..... in this country we have something called "INNOCENT until PROVEN guilty in a COURT of LAW".

Ring a bell?

Therefore, you are presumed innocent by all parties until it is proven otherwise in a court of law.
The attorney is making sure your civil rights are not violated during that legal process.
If you are ever arrested, you will sure find out what all this means!

Answer 9

It's their job, and the law. Innocent until proven guilty.

Answer 10

Two reasons:

One is $

The other is because someone has to, it's your right to have an attorney defend you, appointed by the state or afforded by your own money.