• Kushan@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    IANAL, but isn’t there like a whole thing around you can appeal if you got bad legal advice?

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        1 year ago

        Can the lawyer be charged with some sort of crime?

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          1 year ago

          Yes, but usually disbarment is sufficient punishment for corrupt fuckers and a deterrent message to the legal community - permanently losing your livelihood and being publicly shamed in the process, while not a criminal proceeding, is extremely (and justly) punitive. That said, if there was a decent likelihood of the fucker becoming a media personality after disbarment, or otherwise capitalizing on their punishment, I’d suspect that a DA might consider criminal charges.

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            1 year ago

            A lawyer telling a client to commit perjury in a federal case surrounding a former head of state is absolutely worth prosecuting.

            This isn’t Keny Lay pretending he didn’t know what was for me on at Enron. This is a lawyer hired specifically to defend someone other than his client and intentionally telling his client to lie - which is knowingly and intentionally bad legal advice.

            A lawyer really can’t do anything worse from a professional or legal standpoint.

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              1 year ago

              I realized I was talking from a more general perspective — you’ll get no arguments from me against prosecuting the fuck out of these folks. You’re totally right.

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            1 year ago

            He actively participated in covering up a coup.

            People were executed for less in this country.