After a week of confusion over which attorney was representing the high-profile Jan. 6 defendant known as the “QAnon Shaman,” the judge in the case approved a change in lawyers for Jacob Chansley.
By the time Pierce is done the Shaman will be in death row.
So he pled guilty and now can say nuh-uh? What about all the sanctimonious “I’ve really learned my lesson” crap. Isn’t that kind of null and void?
Good.
Wow! Ability to transmutate (change) a lawyer. This guy actually does have shamen skills!
(Oh brother!)^42
I believe the lawyers are play a game of “Squeeze the Shaman.” With apologies to Mr. Whippel.
The shamen had his fingers crossed, and chanted “Dotard” three times, so his court apology doesn’t count. He shall forever be known as “The Short-Bus Shamen.”
I think he will be the new ShamWow spokesperson. Act now, and we’ll send you the SlapChop as a free gift, just pay separate shipping and handling costs.
I am not sure why saying something that is 100% accurate would be considered an ineffective defense.
Charming. Not just the defendants but their lawyers. It’s a big money grab. And the RW just keeps donating…nothing like funding ruining democracy.
“12 day stay for an undisclosed malady…” to explain Pierce’s absence from prior cases. Complete isolation with lots of evasion as to where he might be.
I have a theory…
Part of the friction over Chansley’s legal representation may stem from comments Watkins made to TPM over the summer, when he referred to Jan. 6 defendants as “short-bus people.”
Friction, schmiction. Chansley, or more accurately, Chansley’s mom, has to choose between an infinitesimal chance of a successful appeal using attorneys who cost nothing*, and an infinitesimal chance of successful appeal using an attorney who expects to be paid.
*Pierce set up a non profit to raise funds for jan 6th defendants. Where do you think that money’s going?
Hey! No backside dummy!
Is there anybody on that side of the fence who’s not a grifter? 
OT?
Pierce was fired by Kyle Rittenhouse. Mull that one for a bit. Given young master Rittenhouse’s judgment, does that make Pierce:
a) the worst lawyer who could ever possibly exist
b) probably a good lawyer, considering
c) who even knows?
I honestly couldn’t say. Pierce sounds like a huge nut. The whole bunch ought to be tied in a burlap sack and drowned if you ask me.
I don’t know, of course, but no.
Not exactly. The one and only appeal from a properly constructed plea deal with the usual “no backsies” boilerplate is to claim ineffective counsel, which is what is happening here. Odds of winning an ineffective counsel case are even lower than an insanity defense.
What about all the sanctimonious “I’ve really learned my lesson” crap.
As others have pointed out, it kind of poisons the remorse well with this judge for future jan 6th defendants. But that’s their problem, not shaman dude’s.
Depends on what he turned the lawyer into.