GA: ex-p.d. on ex-client - "I hope he doesn't ever see his freedom"

From WTOC: Hostilo Looks Back at Hostage Standoff, Forward to Kidnappers' Trial

A local attorney held hostage last year looks to get back to work as his kidnappers get ready for trial. After a year to gather his thoughts, Michael Hostilo has refocused on law and trying to keep his kidnappers off the streets forever...

Despite a year away from work, he still can't put the ordeal behind him yet. He waits to testify against accused kidnappers Robbie and Connie Brower in their trial this month...

As a public defender, Hostilo had represented Brower in court. A decade ago, Brower faced charges in Chatham County of beating a man half to death with a hammer. In court he proclaimed his innocence, but asked for his hammer back. Convicted and sent to prison, Brower blamed his fate on Hostilo...

"That's probably going to follow me for years. I don't want that to be my legacy, being held hostage in Statesboro by an indigent client," Hostillo confided...