What if you're a wealthy mobster on trial and the prosecution team is trying to paint a picture of you to the jury as a super-rich hoodlum who earned millions of dollars from racketeering, seems to me like a good defense strategy would be to pretend you can't even afford a lawyer. How could you possibly be this millionaire racketeer with a public defender? And not everyone with plenty of money lives extravagant.
So you got money but you go with a bullshit lawyer or a court appointed lawyer? LOL...and your life is on the line hanging in the balance?
Ok DD, you run with that line of thinking if you need to.
And I'm NOT advocating working a bullshit grunt job either. Only stating that if your gonna be a wiseguy. Then you'd better be 'wise' about it and make some solid scarola. Otherwise you risking your balls for what amounts to chump change.