>>On a more general note, only people who don't understand our justice system attack lawyers for defending criminals. Our system requires that the accused have counsel.
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>Correct.
>However, her past colors our views.
>This woman could spend the rest of her life in a leper colony and I'd question her motives.

Again, it's not "just" her past, it's how her campaign promises and platitudes aren't consistent with her prior behavior.

I think it's sickening that she "got off" this rapist, this pillar of his community, and then proceeded to joke in an audio interview about how she lost faith forever in polygraphs.

I agree with your last sentence