Lawyers Lie All The Time
When I was taking defense cases while training to be a lawyer, I had a gentleman come in and ask me to help him lie his way out of a driving while intoxicated charge. He had this brilliant plan where all his friends were willing to lie along with him and claim he was out of state at the time so it couldn’t have been him who was pulled over, field sobriety tested, breath tested, and thrown behind bars.
This was despite the fact that it was clearly him, with, I assume, his wallet and ID, in his car…and he told me straight away that it was him. His belief was that, since it would be “just the officer’s word” versus him and his friends’ word, there was no way they could convict him. He seemed flabbergasted when I told him that no attorney was likely to assist him in perjuring himself and I certainly wouldn’t.
“Lawyers lie for a living,” he said, and, “Besides, officers lie all the time, why couldn’t he?” It was 30 minutes of my life I’ll never get back.
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