Most towns only have a couple criminal defense attorneys. These guys were well known before this.
One of our few criminal defense attorneys went to jail...What a joke......IIRC, huge conspiracy about a hit.
One of my attorney buds said he hated defending these scumbags...but that was his job. They volunteer for the "poor" and get stuck with crap cases.
"Fightin', cause man dat nigga snitched on me"
"naw we thumped after school in a dumped off spot"
"I lost da first round but I won da second and third"
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