Banta’s attorney brought up the firearms charge after the judge neglected it? Can we assume this attorney is court-appointed and doing everything he can to assure a conviction? Why would he say anything to ruin the remote chance of getting his client less prison time on a technicality?
I question the lawyer’s actions and the judge clearly slipped up.
You would think that would create a ‘technicality’ based on the merits of her actions.