By: Sarah

In reply to Allison.

From what I’ve read, they are refusing the public defenders that would be assigned to them, not legal council in general — they likely need specialists for it work out in their favor, and they’ll have that in Scott Holmes.

Also, public defenders are paid by the state, not the person charged with crimes, so that legal assistance would have been free of charge to them. However, public defenders are often young attorneys with an astronomically high caseload, so having Scott Holmes and his team step in was absolutely the right move here.