Defense Attorney Guilty

Part Two: A probable counter to my thesis would be to consider a case where a defense attorney is unsure if their client is guilty prior to accepting to represent them. They still have a belief that they could be, but they choose to defend them anyway. In the middle of the trial, the defender finds out horrific details of the crime and realizes the sheer magnitude of the evil their client has committed. His own moral obligations get called in to question by representing this man. He begins receiving death threats, and his own family refused to speak to him. Completely shocked by this, the defender decides to resign in the middle of the trial, and the defendant is left on their own, without defense, against the prosecution. Inevitably, they convict the man. For the purpose of this example, lets assume …show more content…
Here the attorney would have placed their client in a worst off state than they would have been with his representation by failing to complete the duties required by the profession. However, it doesn't seem morally wrong that, given the circumstance, the attorney decided to resign once his moral obligations to society were questioned. It seems wrong to assume a completely binding contract when the job itself is placing the attorney at great risk. Since it seems unrealistic to ask an attorney to value the duty they owe to the contract with their client, over their own well being.

Part Three: I personably believe that the attorney in this case has duty to their client, and by abandoning them for personal feelings during the middle of the trial, it seems like them have violated the duty they owe to their client. Although the attorney found out terrible things during trial, representing this client through thick and thin, maintaining that adversarial relationship, is the highest obligation of the profession. They assumed the consequences of their