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For so many reasons, I've come to share that view, even tho I did a small amount of that work for a tiny municipal govt back in the day. People hate lawyers; fine, we/they can be a lying, and amoral cohort. But until one has dealt with a prosecutor who is largely unbound from any checks on the power to destroy your life via prosecution, you haven't really understood which lawyers deserve the most loathing.
Prosecutors have actually opposed the Innocence Project from introducing new DNA technology/evidence (and usually losing) which can definitively prove that the scrapings under the victim's nails or ejaculate in her vagina do not come from the man they convicted. These prosecutors do not care if an innocent man languishes in prison. All that matters to them is not losing a notch in the belt.
