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What does their level of guilt matter?
What is the expectation that people prejudged to be guilty not seek to have the case against them proven?
If you can speak to any criminal barrister and expect the same answer, which of the 2,500 of them gone on record saying so? What research has there been on this?
If you speak to any criminal barrister they will tell you that the vast majority of people who get tax payer funds for Defence lawyers are guilty as sin and only chancing their arm because they can. If people had to pay themselves the number of not guilty pleas would plummet.