Larry - I've had defense attorneys help me out too. Some of my best informants were referrred to me by their defense attorneys. I had a federal defense investigator help me break a case with information from a defendant. We actually have some honest defense attorneys in our town.

Doug R says, "Behave yourself and you have nothing to worry about." He's absolutely right. And that advice should apply to FBI agents and law enforcement officers. However, it's quite possible the rules and procedures I use to arrest somebody today will be changed by the time he is brought to trial. The moving goal post syndrome.

Neamanson's sic little switcheroo doesn't work in the real equation. A prosecutor or an investigator who gets an innocent person convicted is doing a piss-poor job in anybody's book. A defense attorney who gets a guilty person off is doing exactly what they are expected to do. So even in the most ideal scenario of our legal culture, the tool of the prosecutor is the truth, and the tool of the defense attorney is other than the truth.

Remember that guy that lost every case to Perry Mason? How did that sucker keep getting elected District Attorney?