It's not unheard of for a criminal defense investigator to fall in love with a client/defendant, but most of us have never done so and will never do so. When it happens, it's one more thing used against the defense by the general public. I won't judge where and with whom my fellow investigators find love, tho. I just wanted to point out that this is not a common scenario. One of the most solid women I know is a criminal defense investigator who fell in love with the roommate of one of her rape victims, they went on to marry and have children. I know her well enough to know that she didn't go out looking for love that day; she was just knocking on yet another door. Things just happen. I found this short story, entitled "An Aggravated Love Story," or "why to never fall in love with a defendant," to be pretty funny.
A much more common state of affairs is an investigator who falls in love with her client's CAUSE -- be it innocence or redemption or religion. Here's a couple public examples of this:
Virginia Synder. Celebrating her 85th birthday this year. Virginia is a recently retired Florida criminal defense investigator and muckraker. Some say Angela Lansbury based the Jessica Fletcher character in Murder She Wrote on Virginia. For Virginia, the client whose innocence stole her heart was Luis Diaz. The good news here is that, thanks in part to Barry Scheck, there's a happy ending to their union.
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