We’re hired guns,” Ronald D. Rotunda, a professor of legal ethics at Chapman University, told the Washington Free Beacon. “We don’t have to believe the client is innocent…our job is to represent the client in the best way we can within the bounds of the law.”
However, Rotunda said, for a lawyer to disclose the results of a client’s polygraph and guilt is a potential violation of attorney-client privilege.
“You can’t do that,” he said. “Unless the client says: ‘You’re free to tell people that you really think I’m a scumbag, and the only reason I got a lighter sentence is because you’re a really clever lawyer.’”
Clinton was suspended from the Arkansas bar in March of 2002 for failing to keep up with continuing legal education requirements, according to Arkansas judicial records.
Utter nonsense. To post this innuendo and then to say she was suspended because she did something unethical.....what complete crap. She was not doing her continuing education credits required for her continued membership in the AK bar, and she most certainly can discuss the polygraph after a client has been sentenced and cannot be faced with further prosecution. There never was any ethical complaint because there was no ethical violation. When does this nonsense stop.