In his 12 years as a public defender, which includes two appearances before the U.S. Supreme Court, his clients have proven that truth really is stranger than fiction. Colorful may be an understatement. Wacky, bizarre, and downright laughable might come closer to describing the off-beat criminals who have paraded through his doors.
Bank robbers seem to be a specialty.
In one case, McCauley defended a man whose getaway vehicle was a bicycle. Then there was the man who said he robbed a bank to pay for a proper headstone and burial for a beloved family member - his dog. The man got away with robbing one bank before he grew faint at heart and turned himself in to guards at a second bank he'd planned to hit. But the poster child for McCauley's ring of thieves is perhaps Sylvester Mosley. Mosley, unarmed, liked to smile and hold up written signs asking bank tellers to please hand over all their money.