They can obviously afford the best lawyers money can buy. The trial will be interesting, that's for sure.
Yeah, if Johnny Cochran could say, "If the glove don't fit, you must acquit," and get OJ Simpson off, a well skilled lawyer, with a lot of audacity and snake oil to sell, might be able to get any client off.
One time, I got paid to be on a "mock jury trial" at a law firm as a juror. They were practicing their new junior & quite green lawyers on how to do jury trials. The lawyer totally went blank when it came to his summation. He stopped, paused for a good minute and a half, trying to compose himself, feeling horrible at the same time. And then when he began again, he was quite shaky.
The moderator asked us after the "trial" was all over, if the junior lawyer forgetting & getting flustered made any difference. I think all of us said no. We really felt for the guy. Yet, in the end, it was what what presented that counted. Yet, I added, if anything, it made me wonder what
wasn't presented. What, if anything, wasn't this lawyer able to present? Or, that all 3 lawyers sitting on the other legal team, in their expensive suits, much older, and looking way more experienced, could spin or turn, as they were questioning a witness on the stand, that this new lawyer wasn't able to do (yet) as well? I said, Johnny Cochran, through his sheer
years of being a confident litigator was able to get away with saying, "If the glove don't fit, you must acquit." Whereas someone new, would never be able to, and may lose their case because of it. It had less to do with the actual laws, but how a good, seasoned lawyer, might be able to turn the jury's thoughts and feelings by what they could present and HOW it is presented.
The biggest differences here are that this trial will be in MA, not CA. They may not be impressed with celebrities, the way juries seem to be in CA. And MA, last I was told, has the highest number of colleges of all the states. I would think, they are invested in making sure people will not even THINK about ways to get away with this again.