How does attorney-client privilege work? And how is it not perjury to defend the innocence of someone who admitted their guilt to you?
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You are not defending their innocence, you are defending their rights. The government cannot simply accuse someone of a crime and throw them in jail. American jurisprudence is based on the idea that the highest ideal is freedom; and the government cannot deprive someone of their freedom without proving their cause is justified. It is better, says the American justice system, for a guilty man to go free than for an innocent man to lose his liberty.
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