The bad part is that prosecutors are generally held in regard in the community while defendants are not. Further things which are written down often seem more

The bad part is that prosecutors are generally held in regard in the community while defendants are not. Further things which are written down often seem more factual than things which are spoken. Combine the two and you've seriously un-leveled the playing field between prosecution and defense. And that's before you consider that many defendants don't have the means to pay for their lawyer and thus are represented by overworked, underpaid public defenders.