(April 9, 2021 at 6:27 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(April 9, 2021 at 6:18 pm)Brian37 Wrote: The lawyer can't plea anything the client doesn't want to plea, they can only advise. Sometimes a lawyer will step off a case if they think the client is asking him to do something unethical, or has a conflict of interest. But of course the lawyer can't plea for the client. I never claimed they could. Chauvin chose to plea not guilty, so that is why the lawyer is in the position he is in now. I simply think he's stepping on too many land mines.
But what you DID say is that Nelson is a ‘fucking idiot’ for not advising Chauvin to plead to a lesser charge, when you have no way of knowing whether he did or not. You may want to be more careful throwing that term around.
Boru
No, I didn't say that. I said I'd advise him to plea out, and I also agreed that that may have happened.
What I am objecting to specifically is the amount of questioning he is doing on cross, and some of the questions blew up in his face. He is an idiot for what I have seen so far. Maybe he'll do better with his own witnesses. But if I were a juror, so far, he isn't helping.
