A couple of years ago....I watched a podcast of a older retired lawyer...who'd done Rico-Act defense for 20-plus years. I came away with four observations:
1. 99.9-percent of lawyers have never done any Rico-Act defense situations. It's highly specialized and lawyers who lose....rarely get a second opportunity.
2. The people accused of Rico-Act problems....aren't typically working-class people....they are in the high income levels.
3. The chief strategy? Well....to either show the prosecution screwed-up or failed in evidence-gathering, or to get a deal.
4. The longer that a Rico-case goes on.....the deeper into debt that the accused goes. So it makes sense to admit some level of guilt....get a deal, and to do as little time as possible.
So, you lay out the Minneapolis landscape....I would imagine there's well over a couple-hundred individuals consulting with lawyers and discovering in the whole state of Minnesota...there's probably fewer than three legal firms (my guess) that handle stuff like Rico.
The cost factor also on their mind? Yeah....you aren't talking about $20k.
The other odd factor? You know a guy....who knows a guy, who knows a guy. So tangled up in this mess that you are attached to.....there's probably multiple other characters....with the same Rico charges. The prosecutor goes to the weakest guy and says...here's the deal...spill the beans on character one and two, and you do three months in some jail.
This Rico-mess consuming 2026, 2027 and 2028? Yeah....those with the most to lose....will fight to control the pain/punishment. They are likely to be the ones financially broke at the end.
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