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Just that tossing it in the trash is one possibility. Remember, even if the judge can't do much with it that doesn't mean it gets tossed in the trash. It might get get copied to both lawyers and tossed in the court file after the judge reads it, might get returned to the defendant, or something else. You read into it more than is there. I simply listed a few possibilities. I did not express any view on the probablity of each one in the OP's case because I don't know the exact content of his planned "angry letter" and don't know the judge to whom he plans to send it.

I do concede when I know I can't win. But of course I don't concede when I think I'm right. You aren't really any different in that respect from what I can see.
You said the judge could or might throw it in the trash. I said that is highly unlikely because it is evidence that must be shared with both attorneys. If you doubt that then please explain why the judge in the murder trial shared my letter with both attorneys and the prosecutor took it so seriously that he felt the need to read and counter it to the jury?

Also your comment of conceding when you feel you can't win is spot on and very revealing. Thats because lawyers don't have a sense of right or wrong...only 'can I win' by using any tact possible...which includes lying, exaggerating and misrepresenting. And, you concede here much more often than you think you do...at least to me you do. Like when you edited my the post above to remove your incorrect point about my skills vs. yours, in that my skills cannot be used to hurt people.

Quote Quoting Mark47n
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Implying is not the same as misrepresenting what someone says. A good attorney's job is to craft an argument supported by the evidence available, not to misrepresent facts (can be discredited in cross) and certainly not to lie.
If a lawyer knew that his client was factually wrong about a certain point, yet saying it anyway would help his case, would it be lying for the lawyer to press that point anyway in hopes the other side did not expose the untruth in cross?

To me that is lying. To others it is good lawyering. Depends where one's morals are.