In my point of view it doesn't look like you're guilty because you called a lawyer, especially considering how often people are falsely accused of crimes. Unless there is a trial and you are actually considered guilty, you must be presumed innocent.
Now I do think there is a group of people who think anyone who can afford to hire a lawyer must be a criminal, an exploiter of the working class. Probably this perception of one confessing his guilt just because he/she hired a lawyer stems from it.