FL: "I don't want you, man"

An old familiar scenario from P'cola, Lower Alabama:

Court system must do well even if defendants are at their worst:

There was no love lost between the defendant and his attorney.

"I don't want you, man," Johnny Gettis snapped at Scott Tatum, the assistant public defender representing him on a charge that could send him to prison for life.

At one point, as Tatum questioned a witness, Gettis even interrupted his own lawyer, "Objection, your honor."

Tatum acknowledged his client's "animosity." "There are problems here," he told Judge Mike Jones.

Still, the trial proceeded.

Click on through to the story to see how the trial turned out (that is, if you need to click on through to the story to see how the trial turned out).