If you're on trial, you must be guilty.

Here's a description of James Woods's new CBS drama "Shark":

Multiple Academy Award nominee and Emmy Award winner James Woods stars as Sebastian Stark, a charismatic, supremely self-confident defense attorney who, after a shocking outcome in one of his cases and a personal epiphany, brings his cutthroat tactics to the prosecutor's office. Though Stark is seeking to redeem himself, he has no intention of cooling his underhanded approach to cases just because he's now working for the "good guys."

I just saw The Devil's Advocate, which made an even more literal claim that working as a defense attorney rather than a prosecutor is the equivalent of selling your soul, both because the pay is better and because your clients are always 100% guilty child rapists. Gee, good thing the system works so well, or we might try to convict innocent people!