Is the lawyer right.

Question

my son has an attorney, he is court appointed, i have already fired one court appointed attorney because he wanted my son to confess to somthing he didnt do. they gave him another one he offered the same service as the frist.only this one cursed at him and said your crazy as h--- if you dont take the plea.i told him if i was paying him that he wouldnt talk that way to him. and told him that he was fired and i would pay for an attorney because family members offered help. the lawyer told me that the judge would not allow my son to get another attorney. since i fired the court appointed attorney. that i was stuck with him and pratically forced my son to take a plea. what do i do. and is the lawyer right.

Answer 1

Even if you are paying, you can't change more than once unless there are exceptional circumstances.  However, the attorney should not have forced your son into anything.  If your son insisted on a plea of not guilty then the attorney is ethically obligated to mount the best defense possible.

Answer 2

You can always hire an attorney to take the place of court appointed counsel.  Well, actually, your son can.

Answer 3

A lot of attorneys want the easy money. Your son confesses it makes his job easier. The worse thing any attorney can do is tell a client to cooperate with police, your son should never answer any questions the police ask. He can plead not guilty then change his plea later, usually they will offer a better deal later to keep from going to trial. Any attorney that wants a client to plead guilty in the beginning is a fool and should be fired. I would try talking to different attorneys maybe even going to a different area.

Answer 4

This fellow is not your lawyer, he is your son's lawyer.  There is no single group that gets in the way of proper legal advice as frequently or as thoroughly as parents.  Their parental bond gets in the way of a fair look at the evidence.  Moreover, there is almost always something that the child does not tell the parent.  The lawyer is not permitted to share confidences with you because you are not his client.

So you are criticizing the attorney's advice from a position of extraordinary bias, without knowing all the facts.  I don't know if the lawyer is right or not, but I know you are wrong.

Answer 5

It seems to me that whether the lawyer is right or not depends on whether or not your son actually did what he's accused of.  I have no way of knowing that, but unless you raised a fool, he told the attorney the truth.  

Have you considered the fact that both attorneys thought the plea was a good idea?  Is every court appointed attorney a hack, or is it possible there's something that you don't know?  

Answer 6

it depends on what the plea was for. i believe you need to listen to the attorneys thats why they went to law school not you. they obviously dont have have proof he didnt do it. so let them do their job;

Answer 7

you had best find jesus and do the right thing.