"For criminal defense attorneys, being asked to justify defending 'those people' is such a predictable part of the job it may as well be included in the job description. Laypeople want to find out how criminal lawyers can represent people who hurt other people. Scholars are interested in the same question, albeit in more sophisticated garb. For scholars, the central question of legal ethics arises because lawyers are sometimes asked or required, in their role as lawyers, to do things that strike all conscientious people&as morally suspect. Yet this is a topic that fascinates mostly laypeople and scholars. Defense attorneys, as a rule, are comfortable with their ethical obligation to offer a zealous defense and do not find the question, as posed, very interesting."
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Susan Bandes, "Repression and Denial in Criminal Lawyering" (March 27, 2006). Center for the Study of Law and Society Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program. JSP/Center for the Study of Law and Society Faculty Working Papers. Paper 36.
http://repositories.cdlib.org/csls/fwp/36
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