Petters attorneys want to quit over nonpayment

Tom Petters' defense attorneys are seeking court permission to quit. The lawyers accuse the government of meddling in the Wayzata businessman's defense by objecting to payment of their fees from Petters' frozen ...

[Pooper scooper]

So let them quit.

[Bob the Bilderberg]

Seems to me that the government should allow the defendant access to his funds to pay for his defense. Assumption of innocence, etc.

[hamboner911]

560,000 wow thats alot of cabbage
final costs could be 5 million
hold the phone here,guilty. give the money back to the people he ripped off or give it to the state and spread it outto the people.
Thats a pipe dream

[Half Fast]

Bob the Bilderberg wrote:

Seems to me that the government should allow the defendant access to his funds to pay for his defense. Assumption of innocence, etc.

That's the rub, eh? Right now, the funds are being held as evidence. They may be his rightly, or they may be his ill gotten gains. That's what the whole trial is about. While I do grant him the presumption of innocence, if the funds are ill gotten, it is the height of chuzpah to ask those he defrauded to pay for his defense. If he has no money to pay the lawyers, he should use a public defender. Others in that situation do.

[water boy]

mammas says let them quit