Discussion for article #239863
If it was just Kendall recusing, it could be a number of things, including some technical conflict with another or previous client. But “a series of lawyers” suggests one or both of Paxton playing games and presenting each in that “series” with an ethical problem none of them want to absorb. That TYPICALLY means either a direction from the client to run an obstruction strategy involving or at least not excluding tactics that are marginal at best, like some weird variation the so-called “grey mail” tactic. Whatever his directions are, they may also be of the sort that ordinarily requires a defendant enter the witness box, and the inability - or REFUSAL - of the client to answer the defending team’s questions necessary to provide him with constitutionally adequate defense may be either a factor or even - tho normally less likely - THE problem.
When an attorney is faced with the prospect of acting for a snake as bent and twisted as Paxton, it could even be ‘all the above’.