IANAL but other than that I think throwing the case by the prosecution is as likely a scenario as any— the odd civility between BDLR and MOM that pops up from time to time comes to mind. If I were the prosecutor I would have given up before I had started. Maybe BDLR did not have that choice to make (and keep his job, at least). I think it is as least as likely as some of the legal conjectures that WFTV legal commentator Bill Schaefer is coming up with. BS also probably wants to keep his job too, and it’s safer to go with less outlandish hypotheses if one is on live TV, so if it is viable, it is a conjecture we are not likely to hear from most of the commentators.
Lay people and clients always find it weird that the warring laweyrs can be civil to each other, but is actually the way it is supposed to be. The parties may hate each other, but the lawyers are supposed to conduct themselves professionally. It is not personal to them or should not be at any rate.
>> I think throwing the case by the prosecution is as likely a scenario as any
Can’t argue with you, FRiend. A strategy of “Prosecutor Nullification” would explain a certain amount of the baffling strangeness in this courtroom drama.