Ignoring the Warning Signs

It's no reason not to go into any line of practice that it has downsides. If the particular protective function you think you can best serve is to negotiate guilty pleas with defense lawyers and try to duck the cases no office ought to bring, it's not for anyone else to tell you otherwise. But the thinness of the rationale is apparent even to you, and in this well-made but cagey essay, it goes without question. The only thing ADAs can do is to negotiate prison sentences, or force them by going to expensive and wasteful trial. This is only as protective as we believe the incapacitation function of imprisonment is protective, which is not very much in anyone's telling. A cop can risk her life to stop something dangerous on the street. But all an ADA can do is to affect the deployment of the already obscenely large corrections budget to the making of better career criminals in his own neighborhood. Your GPA doesn't go to work: you do. One way of revising this essay would be to take childhood and your family out of the next draft: the background is important only because it brings you to the thoughts that essay would then be more about thinking.