We had never heard of the guy,'' said one lawyer who does move in that circle. He is workmanlike. Nobody will ever take that away from him. Nobody has ever defended a case like this. One of the things about these big cases is, nobody knows how people are going to react.
Judges get strange.
Jurors get strange. The media gets strange. The whole rulebook goes out the window. People are not themselves. They don't cover this in law school.