Well, it takes around eight years and just shy of four hundred thousand dollars to become one, so. [The amount of student debt he's got waiting for him back home...is not as much as it could've been if he hadn't gotten all those scholarships.] We have a system in place that affords every single person suspected of criminal activity to a hearing, trial and verdict handed down by a jury of their peers. -minus, of course, civil cases, which may or may not have a jury depending on the circumstances.
[He bumps into somebody and apologizes, hand up before turning back to Justice.] As a lawyer, I'm usually on defense. I represent the accused. The burden is on the prosecution to prove the guilt of my client, but ideally, the goal of a trial is to uncover the truth of a crime and see to it that the appropriate parties are punished or set free.
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[He bumps into somebody and apologizes, hand up before turning back to Justice.] As a lawyer, I'm usually on defense. I represent the accused. The burden is on the prosecution to prove the guilt of my client, but ideally, the goal of a trial is to uncover the truth of a crime and see to it that the appropriate parties are punished or set free.