interesting read

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Originally Posted by Greglaw

Lawyers don’t give testimony, they elicit it through direct examination and via cross-examination. Media accounts of trials distort what happens in a trial. You present your case through your client, and witnesses and properly admitted evidence.

The finder of fact, be it the judge, or a jury, if a jury trial, makes the decision based upon all of that. If you knowingly present something false, as you put it-not the truth-then that is perjury if by testimony, or if actual physical evidence that is falsified, then that is fraud.

Well let’s not get it twisted. My comment was that an attorney is charged with advocating for their client; they are not charged in finding the truth (that’s the courts job). I think we both agree on that point. That’s different from presenting something known to “not to be true” which is a different conversation altogether.


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