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Being a defense lawyer is sometimes not much different from being a business lawyer. You work out the best deal for your clients. They are the boss. It is their lives who are affected. I would say just about 100% of my clients over the years cared about one thing: can they go home and sleep in their own bed tonight? Pleading guilty is part of the deal, even though it always rubbed me the wrong way. It's even worse when the government forces your client to admit to facts that you know are not true. The cops know it too. A criminal courtroom survives on lies, and everyone does it - the judge, the cops, the DA, the defense lawyer, and the defendant.
when you enter in a plea (guilty or not it doesn't matter) you are literally renounce to your right to defend. You are done, you are a garbage in their eyes and they can do whatever they want with you.
A criminal courtroom survives on lies, and everyone does it
Thank you. It was all that I wanted to hear/know from you.
@siggy47 as ex defense lawyer, what do you have to say about this "pleading" (guilty or not) ?