There is nothing worse for a criminal lawyer than personal guilt for having waged an inadequate defense that results in a miscarriage of justice for his client.
That injustice may be (1) the conviction of a defendant who is innocent; (2) the conviction of even a guilty man, who nonetheless should have not been indicted in the first place, or at least acquitted at trial; or (3) the lawyer’s failure to persuade the client to plead guilty1 rather than roll the dice on the draconian sentence that a trial conviction would bring.
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