She didn't know Jimmy, had never met him before in her life. It follows that one lawyer automatically makes work for another when he does that. It strikes me as more than just passing irony that you have to hire a lawyer to protect yourself from lawyers. It's my contention the law no longer serves the people, it serves the lawyers. Criminal law has become more of an auction block than a system of justice.
Prosecutors routinely charge an accused felon with the harshest charges remotely possible.
When the State charges someone with really heavy charges and then bargains down with the defendant that's clearly wrong. If a person has in fact done really heavy stuff, then he should have to answer for it, all of it. Either the State can prove its case in its entirety or it shouldn't bring it. RICO is a prime example that is clearly malevolently misused by prosecutors to coerce behavior. Bad Law for good reasons.