How do Defense Lawyers Sleep at Night?

How do defense lawyers sleep at night? by not caring whether their client is innocent or guilty, just as long as they WIN Look at the lies Baez told to these jurors, did he or his client care when they threw Casey's father under the bus with their outrageous "accident" theory? no,of course not and i doubt very much if he really believes his client is innocent,he knows what a habitual liar Casey is and also knows the evidence the prosecution had against her.it just didn't matter just as long as he won. I also agree with you regarding the jury system in this country. how these 12 people were able to acquit her is mind boggling. IMO, judges should be the ones to decide a persons guilt or innocence, they know the law and are more than knowledgeable about the facts of a case and also are not swayed by ridiculous theories and speculations.

The man did his job. He brought in a verdict of not guilty. He created reasonable doubt. That was what he was supposed to do. If he hadn't done his best and it became known, he could have been in trouble with the bar association. He said that he believed that she was not guilty and he worked toward that. Sure she lied. Many times. But a liar does not a murderer make. There was no concrete proof of murder. There was no definite proof that it was an accident. I'm so tired of seeing this stuff on tv and the internet and just everywhere. It's time for the media to get off of this and stress more important things.

Hi Lelin, i agree w/u 100%. I think Baez really thought he was something the other night walking her out of jail. Lawyers do this ALL the time. I don't know how they could defend people like her but they do & make big bucks & gain alot of fame for it.

It's not only our court systems that need to be revamped, it's our government too. This man will get his and of course, she will too.

I also feel disgusted when I read about lawyers who manage to defend successfully people who committed terrible crimes,and I also wonder how they can sleep at night,but I guess the answer is simple:they sleep very well because they have no conscience and they feel no remorse,they only enjoy the smell of money from their clients,it's the force that motivates them and makes them defend guilty people with so much conviction.I don't know what can be done about that,because any person,no matter how gruesome its crimes were,has the right to defense.

I understand how you feel but in our society today, money is king. If he didn't took the job someone else will. I also don't like it as much as you do but it was the Jurors who had the last say, anyways.

I wonder the same thing sometimes. Its like they will come up with anything to try to get their client off. I think its wrong. I think even if they believe their client is guilty they will still do what they can to make them free. Its probably all about the money and pride for them thinking wow look who I got freed from jail even with how obviously guilty they are. I couldnt sleep at night if I were them thats for sure.

He sleeps pretty well, I guess, knowing that whether his client was guilty or not, she got a fair trial of the kind the Constitution requires for accused people. C'mon, think about it, Lelin...what if someone accused you of robbing a bank and shooting an old woman in a wheelchair that was holding a baby? It wasn't you but someone who looked enough like you to be a twin. The public thinks you're a monster, you know you're innocent, but the media tries you before your trial and the court appoint a defense lawyer that just doesn't care. You are judged guilty and eventually die of lethal injection--because people like you didn't think you deserved a fair trial! I know you're angry, most of us are. But letting one guilty person go after getting a Constitutionally fair trial is much better than convicting even one person who is innocent. Especially when he or she is tried in the media before they even have their day in court.

i dont want to judge him nor the victim. the lawyer is just doing his job to win the case to have a good name as a good lawyer who can win the case same thing as we do in our job trying to be recognize and be more good even though we dont want the job but since they trust us to handle the job then we need to do it whether we like it or not. the more case they won the more client ask for his service and the more income they will have. same things on our job if we do good things our boss will give us merit and more project for us to work with to earn more. though its not about money matter but its the name and principle they are trying to defend, they tried to defend their name as a lawyer, as a very will know lawyer who won many cases. lawyers follow law and books and not their heart even though they think its bad but they need to defend the client who trust them. so lets just understand them as lawyers are lawyers nothing personal but just for job sake.

The same way that you do- by closing his eyes too. More than just doing his job, it is unfair for you, and for the public to judge defense lawyers from a moral high ground. You did not hear the entire evidence. You are basing your opinion on what the media has shown you, and most are just portions of the entire episode. I have been a trial lawyer for more than fifteen years now, and the one lesson I have learned is that most things and most people are not always what they seem. You'd be surprised how some people who look and act guilty are not actually guilty. Being guilty is a conclusion - and conclusions are not facts.

They most likely sleep on a nice cushy bed made for all of their blood money for defending people like this. Really though it is kind of hard to imagine how people can live with themselves, but in other ways, its very easy to see how these people can live with themselves. I'm sure for many defense attorneys, they might rather dread getting such a case like this, as they have to find a way to defend a person like this and there are many other people out there who have gotten off. Then again, for some of them its all about the money and they have no shame. No shame at all. It is kind of disturbing at times when you think it. Yet a job is a job unfortunately and I think that its one of those things where the wrong verdict might have been reached as well. This is a case that has stirred up quite the hornet's nest of emotions and perhaps in many cases, it is a good thing that the general public does not judge a person guilty or not. This is one of those cases, that you might be able to make an argument that they might have done a better job. The defense attorneys in situations like this are just one cog in the wheel of insanity that is the legal system. This is not the first time or it would be the last. Yet for a lot of people, attorneys especially, the money that they get covers a multitude of sins. Its a raw deal and sometimes the truly guilty are able to get away. It is stomach turning in many ways.

I agree with quita88, definitely it is the system failure. And courts have be strict with standard rules which needs to be insert in the constitution....

woww, this so unfair, i know most of the time lawyers who defend a criminal it comes to my mind that why criminals have a lawyer when almost everything is against them, proofs of their crimes and still they get away with and surprise!! they are out of jail, most of them pay huge amount of money to lawyers to get them out of trouble.

i feel the same, the lawyer has to be as sick as the client, but money and fame can make some one do anything

even you can do that if your a lawyer and its your profession and they are giving you allot of money which will help you to buy new building house or for your daughter or kids future or you daughter marry. by that money you can pay your all credits that time you also will try to win that case for your criminal clay-ant (sorry if i miss spell) because now only big people of this society are innocent all thinks poor people are just criminal or they think poor people are just a mosquito or a virus the rich people think that they think they can buy anything even a human so a lawyer studied to earn something if they getting good money than they can make a true case to a fake case and to a fake case to a true case they can do anything just throw money on there faces

I think he sleeps in peace as he know he had done everything to save his client. He has done everything to prove that all those years spent in law school was not wasted and he can sleep well as he knows he really knows the laws of men!