one of the reasons they bring cases like this, because it bleeds defendants dry. give me a back of the envelope number for how much representation from a good attorney for four months would cost? i m not going to hold you to it, but i have no idea of what kind of money we re talking about. for a case of this magnitude, not just the trial fee, but all the pretrial, motions, discovery review, it s really honestly a million minimum. we have heard the bond conditions for these defendants state they cannot discuss the case among themselves, though their attorneys can. do you know what level of back channeling might be going on? is there a special text chain? an e-mail thread? that is something that you dot standard in a case like