Whatever your stance on legalizing weed, this is corruption: a lawyer who is not protecting his client’s rights from a corrupt court but rather admits openly he knew his client had violated the law, confessed his guilt and the lawyer convinced a jury of schmucks to laugh at the law, and the judge agreed.
Lol okay buddy
>laughed at the law
Based
Yeah, this guy definitely deserves a decade behind bars for weed 🙄. This is what a leather addiction look like.
It’s your duty as a human being to mock unjust laws.
One of the famous quotes on legal ethics history was from a lawyer trying to obtain a divorce for the Queen of England, referring to evidence he had entered regarding foreign plots, which would help his case but also threaten to inspire unrest. “Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.”
The evidence was later found to be forged. In full knowledge of this, the man is held up as a moral exemplar for maximally pursuing his client’s interest with no concern for collateral impact external to the matter of the case.
The idea of a lawyer is as a champion in a duel. The client gives over their fate – “power of attorney” means the ability to make binding commitments – and in recognition of this momentous transfer, the attorney accepts the burden to pursue their interest first and foremost. For an attorney to restrain himself – failing to maximize client gain – on behalf of the lawyer’s own ideals could well be seen as an embezzlement.
