This is pretty evident in the stories - particularly the trial in Manhunt. Cochrane's calling-out of the prosecutor's bullshit argument would not have carried nearly as much weight if he'd been some schmoe looking for a roof to keep out of the rain and not a boffin of epic proportions.---
"Yeah, I'm definitely going to hell/But I'll have all the best stories to tell" -- Frank Turner, The Ballad of Me and My Friends
I wanna hear more about that prosecutor, though. He's probably a good guy, insofar as a lawyer can be, who got lumbered with a brief that nobody else would even countenance but tried his best to defend the Butcher because dammit, that's just what you do. Which I think is criteria for at least a walk-on role as a good guy in UF. We know he's a good lawyer - from a story perspective it was kinda necessary for the piece's tension for him to be at least competent - and I can imagine him just sitting in a grimy bar on a planet somewhere, trying to drink away the shame, when Zoner or some such creature plops down beside him for one of this universe's famous Redemption Chinwags. And how in the blue fuck did this idea get so long?