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I was told by a friend who's a city attorney that the worst thing you can do in a town like this is to bring in a "New York Lawyer" to defend you--apparently the local judges see it as a 'city lawyer trying to teach the hayseeds a thing or two'.

I dunno. Almost all of California is pretty suburban in nature. Most towns see themselves as part of a larger metro area no matter how ridiculously far away they are. So you don't get the as much of the Country Mouse/City Mouse divide you get elsewhere.

I'm thinking that this is what Geragos doesn't understand. He may be thinking that Modesto is like some backwater Arkansas town full of superstitious types he can whip into a frenzy over Satanic cults.