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... accused; otherwise Innocent persons, victims only of suspicious circumstances, might be denied proper defense. Having undertaken such defense, the lawyer is bound by all fair and honorable means, to present every defense that the law of the land permits,...

Report of the First[-thirty-first] Annual Meeting of the Virginia State Bar ... - Page 280
by Virginia State Bar Association - 1912
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Legal Ethics: A Comparative Study

Geoffrey C. Hazard, Angelo Dondi - Law - 2004 - 380 pages

...(Chicago: ABA, 1957), p. 3. The ABA Canons of Ethics, originally promulgated in 1908, stated in Canon 5: "The primary duty of a lawyer engaged in public prosecution...not to convict, but to see that justice is done." That this duty was envisioned as not extending very far, however, is implied in the sentence immediately...

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