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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: average joe who wrote (73615)8/28/2003 8:09:45 PM
From: The Philosopher  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
A lawyer has only one job and that is to get his client either off the charges laid or to minimize them via the circumstances the initial charges were laid.

First of all, you should have clarified "a criminal defense lawyer." The prosecutor, of course, is also a lawyer, and her job is to find some way to persuade a judge or a jury to find the accused person guilty of the crimes charged, even when the evidence that the accused actually did what he is accused of is shaky or worse.

Second, you need to add to that that the lawyers, in trying to accomplish their goal, have to adhere to sometimes quite stringent rules of evidence and professional conduct. One of those, for example, is that they are not permitted to present testimony that the lawyer knows to be false.
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