. If he's guilty, don't try to get him acquitted, get his sentence lessened or transferred to nicer prison.

They can encourage that but the defendant still runs the show. If a guilty client doesn't want to admit it the lawyer has to defend their 'innocence', even if it means scraping the bottom of the barrel.

Much of our legal system has become a clown show, but scumbag lawyers saying scumbag things is ironically a good thing. It's a sign of a system that values a fair trial, or at least pretends to. Just have to hope Lake's lawyers are good enough to knock it down and the judge is smart enough to see through it not a corrupt piece of shit