What else could she have done? If she’d had any character at all, she would have either refused this case or made sure the guy pled guilty.
Right. Wrong. It’s binary. Don’t forget, Hitler’s guys followed the law and did their best.
I understand where you are coming from, but you have to understand that our entire criminal justice system stands or falls based on the defendant getting adequate representation. Without it, you might as well let the prosecutors just tell the judge who is guilty and what kind of sentence they should get, and forget about trials. When attorneys are appointed to defend someone, it is because nobody else wants to do it.