[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

^ That's why I could never be a Lawyer. You need to be a certain type of person to be able to defend people who you think are guilty of the most horrible crimes and certainly the type of person who doesn't take their work home or are capable of detaching yourself from it.

I agree Niamh - Like Murder Detectives, can you imagine having to blot out from your mind all those corpses you have seen, some of little children when you go home to your own children every night?

I would find it impossible.

A Defence Attorney's predicament must be even worse, because - as you say - defending someone who you know or think are guilty, must be an impossible moral and emotional problem to have to wrestle with. Especially if you are successful and get them off.