John Jacob Jingle Hiemer Schmidt ( Brick Bat )

Yes, lawers should have to defend suspects that they even know are quilty because it is a right every citizen of the United States has. Even when you get arrested, they read you your rights which include the right to an attorney. Also, it is in the constitution that a criminal be judged by a jury of his/her peers. If an attorney just decided that he wasnt going to defend his client cause he "felt" that he was quilty that would look bad for that person, especially if he was innocent. Also you might have a case that no one would defend a man due to the overwhelming amount of evidence against them. There could be cases like in the book "To Kill A Mockingbird" where no one wanted to defend the man because of his race and it pitted one mans word against another's.