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Isn't that a bit of a simplification - even if pleading guilty, anyone would still want good counsel for mitigation, making a case for sentencing etc?
Which I'd say is still defence
andyfallsoff-
There's the infamous billboard ad slogan for some US lawyer - 'Just because you did it doesn't mean you're guilty'...
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Which I'd say is still defence
I wouldn't but that's semantics. I agree that even the guilty are entitled to representation when it comes to mitigation/sentencing. The point I was trying to make is that if someone had absolutely definitely committed an offence, no legal representative would be allowed to suggest that they hadn't. For example, it's a cardinal sin when presenting a plea in mitigation to suggest that the accused isn't in fact guilty.
Thrustvector
Brommers
If they're definitely guilty then no-one would be defending them, because there would be no defence.