When you look at shows like cops and see the massive civil disputes, car chases, and DUI encounters that can occur, it makes you wonder what a person was thinking to become a defense attorney. If you become a defense attorney, you are earning the privilege to spend a lot of time with people who are possibly guilty, perhaps in enclosed spaces. That could take some guts. Prosecuting someone couldn't be too much more pleasant since if you lose, there is the possibility of a grudge, but it seems like you wouldn't have to spend quite so much time alone with them.
The whole idea of being in an enclosed space with a criminal is eerily similar to a confession booth for a priest. If you want to be a defense attorney or a priest, you have the whole attorney-client privilege and are like a container for people's secrets with no outlet for you. How would that wear on you with time? I can't imagine it would be pleasant.
On the other hand, say you have an innocent person, Charlotte, sitting in a jail cell. It could be kind of noble and rewarding to be her defense attorney. Maybe those cases make the rest of the risks worth it...maybe.
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