In some circumstances, if you’re facing a criminal charge, the police may have enough evidence against you to be able to prove your guilt. At trial, in those situations you don’t want to take a risk of going to trial. If you know you’re gonna lose because the punishment could be severe. So in certain cases where the evidence is stacked up against your client or stacked up against you. As a defendant, you’re looking for not just any deal but you’re looking for the right deal so in those cases when the risk/reward analysis isn’t great, when you’re going to trial, you’re really looking for a plea bargain and a great attorney can always try his best to get you a great deal so.