Grasping at straws. The guy is one of the most powerful criminal defense lawyer in Arizona, and his current client is a sitting mayor of a fairly major city, who’s facing many, many counts. I could see if one of the tadpoles from his firm got the job, but this one is getting the big fish.
If it looks like the prosecutor has some stuff with staying power the top guy will be back.
BTW, the guy I had do the title search worked for Edward Bennett Williams (who also owned the Redskins, and had Greg Craig working for him at the time as a kind of personal harrassment expert).
The top criminal lawyers cast as wide a net as possible serving all the clients they can WHO PAY.