Lieutenant Daniel Kaffee is known as an exceedingly excellent defensive lawyer due to his known ability to comprise dealings to lessen the punishments of his clients. This way he avoids even taking the case to trial. However, Kaffee's clients, Lance Corporal Harold W. Dawson and PFC Louden Downey, stat that the crime they are accused of is nothing more then carrying out the orders of their commanding officers. Therefore accepting the deal would degrade their …showed first 75 words of 639 total…

…showed last 75 words of 639 total…will fight for my right to believe in them. My feelings after the verdict was revealed would be temporary relief due to the fact that I was not charged with murder, however if I firmly believed what I did was right, then I would not be satisfied with being let go from the Marines. I would still define right as obeying orders that are demanded of me and never to act against my moral beliefs.