Now, whether or not they're doing a cost benefit analysis and then pleading guilty and saying on the back end, hopefully not to their lawyer, I'm not guilty. Because We have an obligation not to plead someone guilty who says that they are not guilty. And they continue to maintain that. But my client wanted to go to trial. And all I could think of was, you are unhoused, you are black, you have a record, and there is a dead white woman on the other side. (06:02–06:08)
CLAIM
Asserts that lawyers are ethically bound not to enter a guilty plea for clients who maintain their innocence.
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