You are an attorney, and the local court has appointed you to represent a defendant who has been charged with aggravated assault and battery. The prosecutor originally intended to charge attempted murder. The victim suffered serious injury, and the police suspected that a weapon of some type was used, but never was able to find one. The defendant has maintained that there was no weapon. Despite your client's insistence that he is innocent, you urge him to accept a plea bargain. You are motivated largely by a desire to dispose of the case as quickly and efficiently as possible. Your actions embody the notion of: