And here I am concerned about how is he ever going to get a fair trial.
Right now he is just an accused, and not formally at that. (I am going to have to bite my tongue if I talk to my family who live up there this weekend). I was a public defender minded child in a family of prosecutory minded other members. I remember once, after somebody was convicted of some rather unpleasant crime of a nationally prominent sort - and watching the news with my family and some of their friends, when the convicted, at sentencing, shouted out some not useful things - they all gasped at the words of the defendant and then me when I, not meaning to talk out loud, said "his poor attorney"