but relieved. relieved too that reginald pots, as was his right, demanded a speedy trial. but then reginald potts used every resource at his disposal to delay the process. charlie watched in amazinged a reginald turned speedy justice into something else all together. he tired lawyers, fired lawyers, tried to act as his own attorney. each step of the process, the trial had to be reset. one, two, three years passed that way. in the fourth year, illinois abolished capital punishment so that was off the table. and still reginald s actions forced delays. this is one of the more bizarre cases we ve seen in chicago. just as nailah s family reached out to the media, reginald potts tried to launch a pr campaign from behind bars.