Mr. Vole's Witness For The Prosecution

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Lawyers should be expected to vouch for the true evidence they present in court; as long as it is legitimate and reliable. Personal connections and investments made during a trial will create an obvious bias, but intentionally seeking unreliable and tenuous evidence is immoral to the case, and is where the boundary should be drawn. In "Witness for the Prosecution", Mr. Mayherne did not do enough to support Mr. Vole's actual case, but the one he wanted to believe; going out of his way to find evidence that supported Mr. Vole's claims without actually investigating his statements in a credible manner. Mr. Mayherne should not have worked mostly on developing the evidence of the letter he rooted out of a fictitious source, but rather the evidence

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