Given that, according to your profile, you're an appellate lawyer, and the more crime there is, the more work there is for lawyers generally (though maybe not for you personally) that seems like an instance of
>“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
Searching for their profile on their employers website, and you'll find not a single criminal case. As was to be expected, considering the vast majority of lawsuits are civil law matters.
>“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
Upton Sinclair ~ 1934
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/21810-it-is-difficult-to-ge...