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owait Rating. Gotta get gold somehow ROFL

Liar, lawyer, mirror show me what's the difference? :P

Not everyone has the skill to defend themselves well. The idea that people should be able to be defended by skilled counsel supports the idea that people are entitled to an effective defense. An effective defense doesn't mean that a guilty person is entitled to get off. It means that a person's own side of the story should be presented reasonably persuasively, and holes in the other sides account be exposed.
The use of advocates means that people who lack eloquence, logic skills, or even just lack experience with the legal system (e.g. the rules of procedure, rules of evidence....) are not unfairly disadvantaged by these shortcomings, when they come up against a prosecutor whose full time job amounts to preparing and trying cases in court.

Courts exist to decide who is guilty or innocent, so a man's right to legal counsel cannot be denied on the grounds that they are guilty.

Also, that very right ensures that guilty people will have representation.

Your view on this really depends on which scenario you see as the lesser evil- an innocent man found guilty, or a guilty man found innocent.

Our justice systems assumes that the former scenario- an innocent sentenced for a crime- to be the greater evil.

"innocent until proven guilty"

Learn to America Noob.

Innocent until proven guilty. Always remember this. No one is a bad guy until proven in the court of law that they are in fact, a bad guy.

I'd rather send a thousand innocents to the guillotine than see one guilty man walk free! <-- Usual Tribunal judge.