system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: As a defense lawyer, if your client confesses to you, are you still allowed to "make up" a story that fits the evidence to provide an alternative explanation as to what happened?
gpt
You are specifically not allowed present a theory you know to be false.

For this reason, some defense attorneys will discourage their clients from confessing so they can maintain plausible deniability.