I do not think he has ingratiated himself with the court. This could be the difference between life in prison or death. Actually I hope he gets life in Angola. Angola is the hell hole of all hell hole prisons. Life is not easy in Angola.
ps
A dear friend of mine from school in the 70s was a sociology major with emphasis on prison inmates. In 1975 she thought she could save them all. Circa 1982 I saw her in Scotland. Her husband worked in the North Sea with me. I asked her did she not feel “guilty” about moving to Scotland and leaving all her prisoner clients alone back in Angola. Her answer was short, “all those criminals will be there when I get back.”
She stills vote Democrat? I just do not understand it.
Re: Saving prison inmates
I had two friends who made the same journey of discovery.
First, a college acquaintance who took a job as a parole officer.
Second, an assistant pastor who went through a divorce and became a live-in counselor at a Work Release facility to save money.
Years apart, and completely unknown to each other, both of them made exactly the same statement about “rehabilitating” criminals:
“They are sociopaths. They are all sociopaths.”