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Originally Posted by Theophylact

This was a particularly difficult case. As a lawyer, legal ethics demands that you be bound by the interests of your client, and you definitely would (and should) lose your license for betraying them. On the other hand, common decency demands that you not let an innocent man be convicted through your silence.

I suspect that if the death penalty had been invoked, the lawyer would have spilled the beans and sacrificed his own career. From an earlier story:Incidentally, these guys were public defenders, doing a thankless and ill-paid job.

There needs to be something in place where a innocent man is not sent to jail and a lawyer not reprimanded for keeping a innocent man out of jail. I suspect the decision would have been different if it were a family member or friend of theirs.