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You are the last line of defense an indigent, frightened person has.

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If you're a defense attorney, you're far more likely to be representing one of the people listed in the initial post, someone whose only real fear is of the consequenses of his/her actions.

A client who is actually innocent (as opposed to one who claims innocence but who has [censored] things up by leaving enough physical evidence, witnesses, etc to make actual innocence unlikely) is a rare bird.