Originally Posted by
MDawg
Well, in the real world we lawyers are not supposed to allow something to be presented to the court that we KNOW to be untrue. So, for example in a criminal case, if our client tells us that he did it, we cannot put him on the stand if we know he is going to flat out say he did not do it.
But there are a lot of nuances between the two extremes of "did it" and "did not do it" and as well, if we don't really know for sure what a client is going to say, we are not obligated keep him off the stand.