@lumpenspace @s_r_constantin @VDAREJamesK @xenocosmography overworked court appointed lawyer dealing w irrational argumentative or catatonic client might do whatever is least effort & allows them to spend their time on the ppl they think may actually be innocent? and prosecutors & judges & the whole system have incentives to push ppl this way or that way... but idk if it's useful to argue in the abstract because jurisdictions vary & individual cases vary, just saying it is possible