Why would you represent a guilty client?

How can you represent someone charged with murder in the first degree?

How can you be currently representing ten such people?

Why would you do that?

I asked Dick McNeil, a former US Marine, who can tell you the number of months and days he served in Viet Nam, those very questions.

His answers were simple and direct.

He once tried a capital case three times. First time - hung jury.

Second time - hung jury. Third time - Not Guilty.

Dick loves being a criminal defense attorney, a craft he learned well in the military, now practicing in the eastern part of North Carolina.

A fascinating conversation.