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Originally Posted by aoFrantic
The attorney stepped down once the video came out, fwiw.
After a suspect has been arrested and/or charged with a crime, during his first meeting with his attorney, the attorney will tell his client something along the lines of: "Only talk with me. Don't say anything to anybody else. Now, what have you told the cops?" At some point during this discussion the lawyer will advise his client that he must come totally clean - to him. He'll say something like: "As long as you tell me exactly what happened, as long as you tell me the truth, I can defend you. If you lie to me, all bets are off."
With Officer Slager's attorney promptly dropping his client, you have to wonder if what the attorney saw in the video differs markedly from what his client was telling him? Or it could be that the lawyer decided he wanted no part of the death threats that are bound to flow his way for agreeing to represent a killer cop. (Or maybe it's a combination of the two ...)