I have spoken to other attorneys who’ve represented clients they believed with fierce certainty were innocent, and most of them fear ever encountering that certainty, that innocence, again. They have learned the hard way that the weight of innocence can crush you. The thought that you will lose when you should not, when you must not, can break you. It can shatter your soul. It can make you ask, again and again and again and again, that question most fatal to a litigator: “What if I make a mistake?”
