George fired his first lawyers.
However, one of them, Hal Uhrig, couldn't contain himself in the aftermath and unloaded his version of the case.
Now follow that up with his arrest and the failure of his next lawyer to firmly tie down his financial situation. We have conversations in the first bailbond hearing between MoM and the judge about the Paypal money and how or whether it can be used. Everyone on planet earth knew that there was Paypal money, and the judge implies in his own words that he is not sure whether that Paypal money can be used for bail, that it depends how the account was set up. None of the professionals in the court that day seem any too concerned with the precise amount of money in the account -- only getting SZ on record saying something, anything, even "I don't know".
If the judge didn't know and MoM didn't know, the SZ's "I don't know" seems to have been perfectly understandable.
It was all done to impeach SZ as a witness so she could not testify again in court on her husband's behalf. Read the transcript. 90% of her time was spent denying the state's accusations against her husband for his RO and incident with an undercover officer. I doubt that MoM had spent any time prepping either of them for court that day.