| Priests should be paid a living wage, where they will have thier own resourses to pay for thier own legal services like any other professional would. As long as the church wishes to hold them in a state of poverty, then they have more obligation for them.
Also of course there is a small percent of this that ever happens, since the largest majority committ few crimes outside traffic tickets, or refusal to give out info from confesion which requires legal representation.
But even those churches that pay thier ministers a a living wage, most still stand by thier ministers, locally they are paying for the legal needs of the pastors wife who killed the pastor, In Atlanta, the "concerned black clergy" often spend money on legal defense of others, the one I remember the best is the leader of the Church of the Black madona who was convcited of killing a police officer
so it is fairly commom practice though out all the religions | 
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