Evil Intentions Quotes

“The defenders knew that some clients, and their acts, were despicable, but it was still their responsibility to defend them. They could accept the accused’s story, or, once in a great while, believe it. Believing in a client was a luxury to be relished when it crossed one’s path.   Defendants intuitively sensed this. A public defender faced the two-pronged reasoning of the guilty client charged with a heinous crime: First, the accused did not think his appointed lawyer could defend him without believing him innocent, so he lied. Second, the accused believed that if his lawyer thought he had committed horrible deeds, he would never act to get him off, so he lied.   From this jailhouse logic came the public defender’s creed: “A client is someone who lies to his lawyer, and tells the truth to everyone else.”
― Ronald Watkins, Evil Intentions