Vail says that for a defense attorney, "you don't ask, you don't care" whether a client is guilty. In reality, attorneys absolutely expect their clients to tell them the full truth, because holding back facts or a confession of guilt can tank a defense. While lawyers cannot lie or allow their clients to lie, determining blame or guilt under specific statutes is complex, and so a lawyer can in some cases still allow a guilty client to plead "not guilty" without perjury. A guilty person might think it better to lie to the lawyer in order to plea not guilty, but since in these cases the truth often outs itself, a lawyer would rather know the truth and seek to mitigate consequences than simply never ask her client for the truth.
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