The risk of communicating with
codefendants during an investigation is
very risky, but it can also be very
rewarding if done properly. So, the
rewarding side, let’s start with that.
When people are charged in a conspiracy,
one of the best defenses you can have is
to stay together, is to stay as a unit.
Okay? And that’s not very common.
Usually someone is going to decide that
they want to for self-preservation or
whatever their own purpose is to
cooperate with the government. But if
you can stay together, there’s something
known as a joint defense agreement
whereby everybody promises to each other
that we are going to stick together to
achieve a common goal. It’s just like a
a pack of wild animals or buffalo
drinking at the at the watering hole.
They stay together. It is strength in
numbers. It’s the same thing in a
conspiracy charge. So, if your council
knows how to navigate those kind of
agreements and those strategies, it can
be very favorable. It can also be
extremely risky to speak to your
codefendants because you never know if
you don’t have some sort of joint
defense agreement who is talking to the
government and who isn’t. Um, so you
have to be extremely risk uh careful
when it comes to that and you have to
run everything by your attorneys because
it can really backfire.