Unlicensed p. d. wanna-be update

In all the excitement of the Volokh blogstorm this past weekend, I failed to pass along this news from The Legal Reader:

DA to Prosecute Unlicensed Former Defender, Judge Rules

Follow the link to the local coverage here:

"There exists a real possibility that the District Attorney's Office in this case is overreaching and overcharging and overzealously pursuing this particular case because of the fact that they themselves believe they were duped," Brennan (O'Shea's lawyer) wrote in his motion.

"Motivated by a possible sense of hurt pride and feelings, and a need to save face, there is a strong likelihood that the District Attorney's office is unable to evenhandedly handle this case in the same manner it would handle another type of case in which someone was accused of not having a license and therefore had committed fraud."

"So?" the judge seems to have replied.