[Can a lawyer concede his client’s guilt when the defendant claims innocence?] In Florida v. Nixon, the court said it did not violate an inmate’s right to competent counsel when a lawyer conceded a client’s guilt at trial. In 2004, Byrd waited outside a Budget car rental facility in New Jersey in 2014 while his friend Latasha Reed rented a Ford Fusion. Later that afternoon, he was pulled over by a trooper suspicious of Byrd’s careful driving and the fact he was in a rental car. But the court sent back Byrd’s case to decide two other questions.

Source: Washington Post May 14, 2018 21:14 UTC