Replies

“What kind of “lawyer” allows his client to testify to privileged information, olddeck?”

Probably the kind of lawyer who is either attempting to build a foundation of ineffective assistance of counsel for later appeal, or preparing the jury panel for some explanation at allocution that will perhaps mitigate exposure at sentencing.

389 posted on Tuesday, December 14, 2010 7:24:25 PM by OldDeckHand

More nonsense. Lakin waived his right to appeal when he plead guilty and the bad advice of his lawyers does not “mitigate exposure.” In fact, Puckett’s bad advice is increasing Lakin’s “exposure,” i.e., Lakin testified that Jensen advised him that “I can’t ethically advise you to disobey those orders.”

"Lakin waived his right to appeal when he plead guilty and the bad advice of his lawyers does not “mitigate exposure.” "

He did? I guess we're ignoring the other contested charge, aren't we.

Again, did I mention you're an idiot?

By the by, what part of "he's going to be sentenced by a jury panel" don't you understand. Right now, everything Puckett does will be to mitigate Lakin's exposure at sentencing. The panel could find for "no punishment" to as high as 3(ish) years confinement, dismissal and forfeiture of all pay and allowances. If Puckett can craft a narrative that Lakin, although told explicitly not to disobey, was implicitly persuaded to do just that, it might just help him at sentencing.

Of course, you're the "legal expert" here, so I'm not telling you anything you don't understand already.