Find Me Guilty, Please!

While it may sound a bit backwards for a client to WANT a court to find him guilty, there is a good reason for it in some situations. Today, a judge found my client not guilty of drunk driving, but we had asked him to the him guilty. It was a municipal court, and if we lost, we could appeal and start the whole prosecution process over in front of a jury. But because the court found that the Village did not meet their burden of proof, the court acquitted (found my client not guilty), and now the Village can appeal. If the Village appeals, it will make defending the case more difficult.