News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz Issues Statement on Aaron Swar... by tedunangst on Thursday January 17, 2013 @12:39PM (#5073838)
You seem to be implying that if the prosecution doesn't offer a deal you like, you should just keep hiring new lawyers until they make a better offer. Sounds like a get out of jail for $(cost of X lawyers) card.
Re:U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz Issues Statement on Aaron Swar... by toyg on Friday January 18, 2013 @05:16AM (#5078009)
Lawyer-people are (usually) human beings. Despite all the appeals to "professionalism" between prosecution and defense, some of them just have a better relationship, trading favours and whatnot.

Most honest defense lawyers will really have the best interest of their client at heart, and just dismiss themselves if they feel they can't work with a certain prosecutor; they might even recommend their own replacement. After all, it's in their own best interest not to get what they feel is a sub-par result on their CV.

The fact that Swartz went through three lawyers, coupled with what the last one of them said, might as well indicate that all of them felt the prosecution was being unreasonable, and were hoping that a different person might have obtained better results.