[quote=Blogstar]The defense attorneys don’t know what happened? I think often times they do.
At that point the alternative story is a lie. Protected legal lie maybe, but it’s still a lie. Those lies empower criminals to hit the streets again much earlier than if the defense refused with honesty, to bargain with them well before court. When they go to court with a lie , that’s what it is.[/quote]
No. They only very rarely know the truth. The story they tell may seem unlikely, or implausible, to themselves or others, but if that’s true, the factfinder should be able to see through that.
Sometimes very unlikely implausible stories turn out to be true. it is not up to the attorney to judge whether it is true or not, because she simply doesn’t know.
