{"id":6253,"date":"2015-02-07T21:16:47","date_gmt":"2015-02-07T21:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/doyonavocats.ca\/lavocat-de-la-defense-ne-peut-pas-aider-laccuse-qui-nie-sa-culpabilite-mais-veut-plaider-coupable-de-toute-facon-a-plaider-coupable\/"},"modified":"2019-08-23T06:24:45","modified_gmt":"2019-08-23T10:24:45","slug":"lavocat-de-la-defense-ne-peut-pas-aider-laccuse-qui-nie-sa-culpabilite-mais-veut-plaider-coupable-de-toute-facon-a-plaider-coupable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.doyonavocats.ca\/en\/lavocat-de-la-defense-ne-peut-pas-aider-laccuse-qui-nie-sa-culpabilite-mais-veut-plaider-coupable-de-toute-facon-a-plaider-coupable\/","title":{"rendered":"L’avocat de la d\u00e9fense ne peut pas aider l’accus\u00e9 qui nie sa culpabilit\u00e9 (mais veut plaider coupable de toute fa\u00e7on) \u00e0 plaider coupable"},"content":{"rendered":"

L’avocat de la d\u00e9fense ne peut aider son client qui nie sa culpabilit\u00e9 et qui veut plaider coupable pour \u00e9viter des frais ou simplement “acheter la paix”.<\/h3>\n
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Even where someone denies guilt there may be practical reasons where they want to plead guilty. For example, the likely sentence is not significant and the accused did not get bail. Or there is a good deal on a plea and a finding of guilt is likely after trial.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Despite this a lawyer may not, ever, assist in a guilty plea where someone denies guilt.<\/p>\n

R. v. Cameron, 2014 ONSC 2093:<\/p>\n

[<\/a>25]\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0What is most troubling is the role played by trial counsel. A defence counsel cannot represent a client entering a\u00a0plea\u00a0of guilty to an offence that the client does not admit he committed. To do so is to assist the client in perpetrating a fraud on the court. Such fraud leads to a miscarriage of justice and brings the administration of justice into disrepute.<\/p>\n

[<\/a>26]\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In the\u00a0Defending a Criminal Case: Special Lectures of the Law Society of Upper Canada 1969<\/i>(Toronto: Richard De Boo Ltd., 1969), at p. 318, this issue was addressed in the following exchange between Chief Justice Gale and Mr. G. Arthur Martin:<\/p>\n

Chief Justice Gale: \u00a0 Mr. Martin I’m going to ask you to continue with it. What is the position of counsel where his client has informed him that he is not guilty but he wishes to plead guilty \u2026 because he thinks he will get a lighter sentence\u2026?<\/p>\n

Mr. Martin: \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 To permit a client to plead guilty who is innocent and who informs you that he is innocent is really in the nature of a fraud on the administration of justice and is improper\u2026.<\/p>\n

I think \u2026 that so long as the client persists in maintaining his innocence after you have confronted him with the evidence against him, and have explained the relevant law, that it is preferable not to represent him for the purpose of entering a\u00a0plea\u00a0of guilty.<\/p>\n

[<\/a>27]\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0The duty and expectations of defence counsel as described more than 45\u00a0years ago by Mr. G. Arthur Martin are still the same today.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

L’avocat de la d\u00e9fense ne peut aider son client qui nie sa culpabilit\u00e9 et qui veut plaider coupable pour \u00e9viter des frais ou simplement “acheter la paix”. Even where someone denies guilt there may be practical reasons where they want to plead guilty. For example, the likely sentence is not significant and the accused did […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doyonavocats.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doyonavocats.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doyonavocats.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doyonavocats.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doyonavocats.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.doyonavocats.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doyonavocats.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doyonavocats.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doyonavocats.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6253"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doyonavocats.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=6253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}