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You Can't Keep a Good Man Down!

- by Hardy Parkerson, Atty.

As I sit at counsel table, I begin to write notes to my teenage client who is charged with armed robbery.

"You have the right to plead guilty and to ask for a pre-sentence investigation.

But if you plead guilty, you waive all errors (get no appeal).

Some cases can't be won.

We should have taken the offer.

We did not.

We just have to take our licks.

At least we tried!

I did my best to get you off.

It didn't work.

At least we tried!

We need now to decide if we have anything to gain by going to trial.

Our options are:

(1) Try the case; get found guilty, sentenced; appeal. We might win the appeal.

(2) Plead guilty, in which case we have no appeal.

If you are tried, we probably won't win the appeal, however.

Few people win a...See More


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