What story would CR be telling his attorney for his attorney to come up with that suggestion? CR supposedly didn't remember the 15 minutes leading up to the altercation or the actual altercation.
Regardless, even if he was interrupted, it still seems like an odd suggestion if his attorney was interrupting mid-story and suggesting memory loss. The attorney wouldn't know the remaining story that might be useful for his client's case and technically the statements claim CR doesn't remember the 15 minutes prior.... I'm not sure how the attorney would suggest CR might have memory loss for parts of the story CR would have already told him before the attorney realized his client had been punched, if that makes sense!
No idea. I was just discrediting the idea that his attorney would directly tell him to lie and create the amnesia story. At best, if there was an opportunity, he might stop him and interject hypothetically why memory loss from a punch could be advantageous BEFORE CR was to tell the attorney things that would take certain defenses off the table. So while possible, it's not all that likely of a scenario... but even less likely would be an attorney feeding his client a story that contradicts what the client has told him.
Once you put something on the table for the attorney you tie his hands. So it's not entirely unheard of for an attorney to not want to hear too much from his client until he has to.
Meanwhile, the 2nd part of my post mostly explained what I thought was probably happening.
I think we mostly agree on the point that an atty isn't going to force feed his client a coached story that counters what the client has already told the atty. That's just not how it works.