As a lawyer, but not criminal one, none of this surprises me. Some amount of your job is protecting clients from their own misconceptions and things they have convinced themselves of. Those who say this guy is a scum or should be in jail do not have much of a concept of the justice system and what it means to zealous represent a client. Without the truth, you can’t see you blind spots—in fact, your client is making them. To both their and your detriment. I personally love how the writer handled the fingerprints. It allows an immediate inflection point of “let me do the thinking and handle strategy, and stop lying, or find another lawyer.” But, some clients won’t, and those are the ones that end up with an imperfect defense by virtue of them thinking they are being clever or whatever.