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ELI5: Why do some lawyers help bad people? (Question from 8-yr-old)

Hey everyone,

Could you help me explain this to my sister in a way she can understand. Her exact words were 'why do some lawyers help people who have done horrible things, like killing lots of people or hurting their own kids? do the lawyers feel bad about helping them?'
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1.) Because some lawyers believe in equality of representation. Everyone deserves a voice in our society, no matter what they have done.

2.) Some might actually be innocent. The small chance that someone might be innocent is enough for you to fight for them. It is better to let a 100 criminals go free than to condemn an innocent man. Benjamin Franklin said that. He was a wise man.

3.) Money. You make a lot more in private practice than you do being a public defender. 

Some lawyers have a conscience, some don't. Lawyers are not magically moral, they are humans too. 

ELI5: If your little brother was caught doing something bad, and you got blamed for it, you would want to fight for yourself, right? Even though everyone thinks you did it. Without our laws, you wouldn't even get a chance to tell mommy your side of it. If you did do it, maybe you had a good reason, and would at least want mommy to hear it, before she grounds you.