"I am not in the habit of making deals on behalf of innocent clients."

He is blessed, for starters, with exclusively innocent clients, which certainly allows him room to maneuver.

"Theo was my one innocent client in four years with the Freedom Institute."

However, he was able to acknowledge this when his prejudice helped to an innocent client getting convicted.

He hasn't had an innocent client in his four years of practice.

Does Mickey endorse this deal, in which case his innocent client will go to jail?

But the fee is too lucrative to pass up, and clearing an innocent client could be his act of redemption.

As his "innocent until proven guilty" clients sometimes protest, why would he ever do that?

Course, I'm not too happy about you putting my innocent client in jail.

The actual public defender claims he never tells innocent clients to take a plea.