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Lawyers are obligated to do whatever they can for their clients. I really don't understand why people get mad about this stuff or about defense lawyers who defend people like murderers. Even if we know someone 100% did it, giving people fair representation and trial is part of the moral framework we use to put these monsters in prison.

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No problem with lawyer representing client. In this case make client look worse as we know its BS and might even bring him a worse sentence.

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What "we" think we know isn't really relevant here, it's the court that decides the sentence with a process a lot more convoluted than 'this sounds like bs to me'.

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