Let me tell you guys something about criminal defense attorneys. Clearly, I am insanely biased. But it really is true.
People like NP are what they are because that's how they think they can sway the public. This guy knows damn well his client is guilty as SIN and committed murder. But if he can continue to mold FD to look like some type of "victim" of the police; they "stole his phone", mistreated him, have been keeping evidence (that's what we do in an ongoing prosecution...) then maybe people will start to sway a bit.
I nearly lunged across the courtroom the other morning because I was handling a juvenile on juvenile sodomy case, and the defense attorney said that her client was "just experimenting". I LOST it. The probation officer had to hold me back, quite literally.
But I know the defense attorney really doesn't believe that. What can she say? She's got nothing else going for her, so she has to try SOMETHING, right?
Don't let this guy get to you. He's going to be loud and proud and in our faces as long as this goes on. Think of it as one of those gnats you keep smacking away but it still comes back.