Even the good ones share this guilt to some degree, because they contribute to a system whose main thrust is to produce innocent verdicts for guilty defendants. If I were an attorney, I would practice corporate or real estate law, something that you could hope to be honest about, and that wouldn't result in my guilty client being let loose on the street, just to do more harm to yet another person. The last thing I would be is a trial lawyer. They are rotten, no matter how you try to justify them.
I much prefer the US "trial by jury," vs the European "code law" systems, where 3 judges decide your case, but you have to admit, if lawyers were up against experienced lawyers (judges), not braindead "peers" who can let Johnny Cochran persuade them to let a murderer "get off," they would be less of these travesties of justice. I know this: if the present system continues to decline, with more and more obvious guilty defendants getting innocent or reduced verdicts, the jury trial will be in danger of being lost, and that by a public that will have no choice but to dump it in order to have something that works, whether it is a better replacement or not.....