Mark O'Mara is new Zimmerman Defense Lawyer

[amandabeech]

15. I doubt that O'Mara will show up on Channel 6 for some time.

If he did, it would be an ethics violation.

For the record, any defendant has the right to any defense that he or she can find or pay, and that includes the most despicable defendants out there.

If our system did not allow defendants to choose any counsel that he or she could bring in, the system would not work.

I clerked for a federal district judge for a year after I finished law school. He counseled my co-clerk and I repeatedly that every defendant deserves representation, and that one ethically could represent them and their civil counterparts without guilt.

This is from the judge that brought Texas kicking and screaming into the latter part of the 20th century.

He's in a better place now, but Texas has moved backward, from what I can see.