A lie involves knowingly making a false statement. If your client tells you he's innocent or doesn't admit to the crime, you can explore other potential scenarios in order to establish reasonable doubt.

And as far as TV lawyers are concerned, those are extremely atypical situations. There are very few defense attorneys in this state who would comment to the media on a case while it was still in progress.

I don't know why you're stuck on this, but telling lies is not in most lawyers' playbooks at all. In fact, if a lawyer knows his client is making a misstatement of fact to the tribunal, he has an ethical duty to correct it. I'm sorry you're so cynical. There are a few out there who give everyone a bad name, but the bad ones are few and the good ones are many.

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Bingo..

I really hate lawyer's, but they can get in trouble for lying.

This one lawyer filed something in district court saying that a judge in juvenile court had ordered something. The district court judge called up the juvenile judge on the phone to ask him what was going on, lol.. She made the whole thing up, there was no order or anything that could even be mistaken as one.

She would have got in a lot more trouble, but her dad was president of one of those 100 year old massive Oklahoma lawfirms and showed up when we filed for sanctions. She was still ordered off the case, but the judge got fired... fun times.