When the film just started, the driver who drove the Lincoln for Mickey told the lawyer Mickey that if you were a street gangster, you must be a good one. Lawyers, they're just messing around.
The plot is basically: Mickey represented a rape and intentional wounding case. Later, Mickey discovered that his client in this case, Louis, was probably the real culprit in another homicide he had represented before. In that case, he did not help his most likely innocent client to exonerate, but persuaded him to plead guilty in order to reach a plea bargain, thus allowing Louis to get away with impunity. Of course, Mickey was initially in a little bit of basic conscience and began to discover the truth. But Louis persecuted Mickey's partner private detective in order to interfere with Mickey, and also intended to blame Mickey. Therefore, Mickey must fight back to the end. However, the lawyer's client is exempted from the requirement that the client's criminal behavior disclosed to the lawyer shall not be disclosed by the lawyer unless it will cause a real danger. Therefore, Mitch knew of Louis’ crimes, and he couldn’t speak out, because he was Louis’s lawyer. However, our Mickey is a lawyer who "even if he is on the street, he will be a good bastard", so he is not a good guy.
First, he tried his best to defend Louis, help him escape, and fulfill his duties as a lawyer for Louis; then, he tried to get a certain inmate who was detained at the same time as Louis to appear in court. Of course, it was perjury, indicating that Louis had boasted about his previous The murder went unpunished, which aroused the attention of the police; finally, he pointed out that the prisoner had a historical record of perjury, so his testimony was not admissible. Therefore, in this rape and intentional injury case, he exonerated Louis and fulfilled his duties as a lawyer; but he cleverly made the police suspicious of Louis’s previous crimes, which led to Louis’s behavior in other cases. Was punished.
In movies about lawyers, especially in American movies, the moral dilemma of lawyers is often talked about. These issues are generally inseparable from:
1. Lawyer-client privilege (lawyer-client privilege), also referred to as lawyer's privilege or lawyer's duty of confidentiality. Simply put, if the client cannot tell the lawyer as fully and truthfully as possible about what he knows, the lawyer cannot defend the client. However, the client is likely to worry that what he said will be reported to the police by the lawyer, or even if the lawyer does not take the initiative to report it, it is not appropriate for the lawyer to lie if the police asks it. Therefore, the lawyer's professional rules give lawyers a privilege, or business, that is, the lawyer must not tell anyone else the client's circumstances he knows, unless the client's circumstances may lead to an imminent criminal act.
Mickey was caught in the barrier of this special immunity, which prevented him from reporting the crimes of Louis that he discovered. Many lawyer movies are also developed around this. Chinese law did not give lawyers this privilege before. However, Chinese lawyers are more serious. They either know it or pretend not to know; or they know it and help the client to keep it secret, but they do not leave any evidence to let others know that he knows.
2. The lawyer shall not voluntarily withdraw from the agency. Simply put, only the client can fire the lawyer, and the lawyer cannot fire the client. This regulation also exists in China. The main purpose is to prevent the lawyers from discovering that they cannot win the fight and are unprofitable, and stop doing it, causing the client to switch lawyers back and forth and fail to defend properly.
For this reason, Mickey couldn't fire Louis, so he could only bite the bullet and do it to the end.
In general, Mickey is not really a behaving person. For him, the rules of professional conduct of lawyers, as long as it does not affect the revocation of his license, he will do it. But more than most lawyers, he still does things that violate professional rules in private. For example, he would "frame" his client.
It's hard to say that Mickey is a good person or a bad person. Lawyers are a unique industry, and every lawyer is a unity of angels and demons. On the one hand, he has to make money, earn the client's money, and of course have to do things for the client, which is called hied gun in English, and is called "dog leg" in Chinese. In fact, most lawyers are hired guns. After all, he has to make money, and the law requires him to be loyal to his client. However, on the other hand, lawyers, prosecutors, and judges all have the same education, graduated from the same school, read the same book, and have similar professional experience. They only play different roles in court. Therefore, lawyers must be influenced by themselves. The conscience and professional sense of justice. Therefore, lawyers have been swaying between the two.
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