Do You Have the Right to Plead Not Guilty When Your Lawyer Disagrees?

Re:Do You Have the Right to Plead Not Guilty When Your Lawye... by nkrisc on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @01:20PM (#16170297)

But how does the lawyer know it isn't true? Is the lawyer supposed to pass judgement on the evidence? Isn't that what the trial is for in the first place?

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Re:Do You Have the Right to Plead Not Guilty When Your Lawye... by dsp1234 on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @01:37PM (#16170471)

if the client tells the lawyer he robbed the bank

What reason would the attorney have for not believing the information that the client confesses voluntarily under the veil of attorney-client privilege?.

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Re:Do You Have the Right to Plead Not Guilty When Your Lawye... by dragonwriter on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @01:54PM (#16170615)

The attorney could believe that his client is a pathological liar, among a near infinite array of other possibilities.

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Re:Do You Have the Right to Plead Not Guilty When Your Lawye... by gknoy on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @01:52PM (#16170602)

Sometimes people lie to protect other people, or to conceal a secret that they might feel to be more devastating.

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Re:Do You Have the Right to Plead Not Guilty When Your Lawye... by testvox on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @04:59PM (#16172398)

Insanity, duress, maybe the defendant is trying to take credit for another person's crime in order to protect them.

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