Things might change if murder charges are brought, jury convicts and sentence is 25 yrs to life IMO. I simply cannot imagine a control oriented individual being able to function in the regimented world of maximum security prison. Murder charges wouldn't entitle FD to end up in a lower security location where he would be surrounded by white collar criminals etc. Nope. Murder conviction puts him into a population of peeps that most of us could never imagine even exists.
I also keep wondering about the longevity of No Case Norm in this case too? FD cannot be an easy client and if you combine being difficult with poor too, I'm not sure Pattis & Crew will have a long term partnership with FD IMO. I truly believe the Judge in the criminal case will do something to get the endless Pattis nonsense and outright falsehoods in the press to stop with some kind of gag and as this case with FD has essentially functioned as an 'infomercial' for Pattis & Crew IMO, then I wonder also if he will stick around if he can't chat with the media? I somehow doubt it. I would like to see the criminal court gag happen and watch the Pattis appeal to higher court too.
Pattis says the goal with his elaborate and IMO very poorly planned press/misinformation campaign is to make sure murder changes are never brought against FD. Its a curious goal in that it doesn't have much to do with defending his client on the current charges (hindering/tampering). I still am not convinced Pattis & Crew have their alternative theory/alibi for FD at this point either which given its 2+ months into the case is quite curious IMO.
MOO
I was just reading up on an attorney's perspective on representing clients in criminal
court. This attorney said very, very few criminal attorneys recommend their client go
to trial.
For one thing a trial is very time consuming for the atty. and his staff, but also because so few
criminal attys. actually go to court because as
this atty. said "Suggesting a plea deal, if offered, is EASY MONEY. Plus he said most criminal defendants don't have the money to pay for trial representation. (Sounds like Fd)
So will NP highly suggest FD take a plea deal
if it's offered? This may be a good way for him
to gently slide out of the deal.
If anyone is interested there's some interesting info on the back story of how these plea deals
work and usually the state's atty. consults with
LE and the victim or their family before the deal is offered. It's part of the back story of criminal law that we usually don't read about.
So if FD is close to broke, he may never go to trial and NP gets paid a bit and cleans out FD's
retirement account and the courts are happy
cause the DA and prosecutor don't want to go to trial also.
Oh also, the article said if it weren't for plea deals, prosecutors and state's atty's would suffer burnout in 2-3 yrs. vs. the 6-10 yrs they do now. The case load must be overwhelming
in smaller offices.