The sociopath I am referring to has a history of cheating people out of thousands and has done jail time already and has a few years of suspended sentence over his head as well as probation. Old con-artists never change and he has another charge for the same stuff again but this time he is planning a lie that would change it from criminal to civil, and the attorney defending him knows it. Unfortunately, that attorney is on this site.
It is unclear what you are trying to accomplish here. Are you somehow connected to the case? Were you a victim of the Defendant's? Were you represented by the lawyer? Do you have specific knowledge of the wrongs you are alleging?
In regards to the Defendant, you can contact the prosecutor and provide the information you have so that the prosecutor can use it at trial if you believe it would be helpful to the case.
In regards to the attorney, you can file a complaint to the Attorney Grievance Commission (I've provided the link below) who will investigate the claim. Keep in mind that you would have to prove that the attorney knows of the fraud and proceeded anyway. In other words, if the Defendant is lying to his attorney and the attorney handles the case based on what his client told him, that is not necessarily misconduct as the attorney had no way of knowing about the lie.
http://www.courts.state.md.us/attygrievance/complaint.html
Scott R. ScherrCar / Auto Accident LawyerLutherville, MD ·
Be careful about accusing an attorney of conspiring to allow perjury unless you have concrete proof of it. An attorney cannot ethically allow his client to knowingly perjure himself on the stand. However, he does have a duty to advocate for his client and assert a vigorous defense to the charges. If his client has asserted that the charges are false, the attorney has the right to believe his client. I am not sure what your relationship is to the case, but I would contact an attorney to discuss your concerns in a confidential setting. Good luck!
Unless you have been present in meetings or privy to the communications between the attorney and the client, I do not see how you can know what you claim to know. If the client told you this, then that's hearsay as far as the lawyer is concerned, and I doubt the client would admit in any proceeding that he told you any such thing (since it would expose him to a prosecution for perjury). Plus, until the client actually gets on the witness stand and commits perjury, there is no issue, even assuming the lawyer knows or has solid reason to know the client is about to lie under oath. If you have information about the client's guilt which would help the prosecution, then you are free to contact the prosecutor's office and provide whatever information you may know. In almost every case there are opposing witnesses who tell conflicting accounts, and many times the testimony is either slanted, embellished or downright made up, and it is the job of the lawyers through cross-examination to expose the lies or half-truths and for the fact finder (judge or jury) to determine who is telling the truth, and what the truth is. This happens almost in every case, so the revelation that a witness or defendant is not going to be honest under oath is not exactly earth shattering. But actually knowing that a particular lawyer is intentionally putting on perjured testimony, that's a mighty big leap, so be careful you do not make an allegation you cannot back up fully with proof. It would make no sense for a lawyer to risk his or her professional license or reputation for the sake of one criminal client.
