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The defense attorney, being John Adams, wasn't exactly unbiased. (And, to the extent that blaming someone other than the soldiers may have helped sway the jury, he was also just being a good lawyer.)
The point being made here is that the issue is not "a few bad apples," but of the use of and enabling of repressive apparatus of force against civilians as policy. The lines of apologia can be applied equally in the modern day as then - and equally ridiculous, unless you're the kind of person who supports policing forces bashing 13 year old kids in the head with a gun buttstock for the crime of being annoying.