QUESTION
is it legal that a hired lawyer bad mouths is client in front of a judge?
Asked on Jun 18th, 2016 on Criminal Law - Tennessee
More details to this question:
a friend of mine, never been trouble, going thru some things and ended up getting 2 dui in in a small time frame, well her lawyer she hired made comments saying that she was nothing but a drunk in front of the judge, now after talking to the judge he wont to giver her 6 months jail time
1 ANSWER
While I was not present in court, sometimes lawyers will emphasize a DUI's defendants's alcoholism as a way to argue that treatment is needed instead of jail time. This could have been the lawyers thought process.
Answered on Jun 18th, 2016 at 8:31 PM