I live just east of there and there should be no good excuse for this. I say, if the defense loses the case at trial, the appeals process should have a smaller price tag on it. Lawyers who are no better than that don't deserve to keep charging top dollar after a conviction and if they DO, give them the needle as well!
See my post #7.
You are suggesting that the lawyer should be executed with his client if he loses the case? I suppose if the defendant is found guilty, then the prosecutors should also be put to death? They are lawyers too.
Your idea of justice is similar to the Chinese judicial system.