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Effective Assistance of Counsel and Guilty Pleas — Seven Rules to Follow
No criminal defense lawyer went to law school to become a cog in the criminal justice machine. Unfortunately, with an absolutely astonishingly high number of criminal cases being resolved by guilty plea, that is what many defense lawyers have become.