The fact that he’s guilty as hell pose a problem for you, Counselor’s?
Wow, when a lawyer passes up a big fee, something is truly rotten in Denmark.
Seems like the “client intends to lie on the stand” reason might have moved up a few places.
O really? Well isn’t that interesting.
@squirreltown yes it does.
Reality sucks
Truthfully his guilt does NOT mean he doesn’t get an attorney to represent him AND that attorney should do the absolute best job he can. Yes, Gates is the kind of guy who normally doesn’t have to worry about being found guilty of anything. He’s the kind of guy who doesn’t care if innocent people go to jail. But our system is based on the idea that everyone deserves a fair trial and to be represented by competent counsel. We can’t just throw that away because the accused is probably guilty and someone we find repulsive. We can’t because then everyone gets to make that judgement and suddenly people, be they POC, or liberals, or the wrong religion get thrown in jail with no trial because “we all know what they are”. It’s the only system we have and looking down on lawyers who do their job only undermines it.
Needs to be understood. Thanks.
That was my first thought too: Gates wants to perjure himself and they can’t talk him out of it.
If it was Cadet Bone Spurs, I would’ve guessed they got tired of his flights from reality and his pomposity…perjury is my only guess for this guy.
This often, but not invariably, indicates that the client has provided false testimony. For the attorney to continue the representation without the client clarifying the truth would conflict with the lawyer’s duty of candor. The lawyer will typically counsel the client to clarify the truth, and that the lawyer will seek leave to withdraw as counsel if the client does not do so, and that such a motion to the court will signal to the court and opposing counsel that the client likely has perjured himself. In short, this looks really bad for Gates.
No - most lawyers who represent people charged with crimes know they’re guilty and it’s beside the point. They are still entitled to a fair trial and a defense.
“Irreconcilable differences” is lawyer-speak for one of four things: (1) he’s not paying us and won’t be able to pay us in the future; (2) we now know so much we can’t continue to represent him without being accessories to an ongoing crime and/or without affirmatively lying to the court; (3) he’s such a total asshole we can’t stand being in the same room with him anymore; or (4) he wants to flip, but that would be a very bad thing for whomever is paying us.
The first three are ethical reasons to withdraw, the fourth, not so much.
Gates may have attempted to withhold evidence or spread false statements through his attorneys. The attorneys may have found themselves making statements before the court (in proceedings or docs) that were not true and might’ve amounted to an attempt to obstruct justice. But what I find odd about it is that new attorneys came in and seem to have taken this over seamlessly. It feels like a handover not an abrupt break. Trial lawyers can probably answer this question better, but it feels to me as if we’re about to get a guilty plea from a strategically positioned defendant who may be able to seriously implicate the Trump campaign as well as those who benefited from the Trump-Russia arrangement. I would include the GOP as one of those beneficiaries.
Well, the client’s guilt is one thing; the client’s apparent refusal to aid his lawyers in mounting an effective legal defense–emphasis on “legal”–is another.
Kind of a queer way to say it? Hey just trying to be funny no offence meant!
Actually Gates told him he was having trouble paying but that Donald had promised him Mexico was going to pay for everyone’s defense.
Kind of gives the phrase “custody battle” a whole new meaning, doesn’t it? It usually means trying to be awarded custody, not to avoid being sentenced to it …
I know - they used the language of domestic relations - no fault divorces are all “irreconcilable differences” divorces. Interesting choice of words.
hahahahaha
Defending any one the Trump org is turning out to be a bad career move I am betting.
How about 5) ALL OF THE ABOVE.
I noticed that too. Sometimes the magic just doesn’t last, I guess.