Andy Esquivel is officially without legal representation

Posted on June 8, 2012 in Trial Updates Xtagged

On June 7th Judge Connors and prosecutor Lyon officially accepted Michael Holje’s motion to be released as Andy Esquivel’s attorney in fraud case#111701135.  As of yesterday therefore, Andy Esquivel is officially without legal representation.  The question remains whether or not Andy will accept help of a public defender.  Odds are he will because he’s too broke to hire another attorney.  Of course there’s always the possibility that Andy will try to represent himself with that box full of evidence he claims to have, but I doubt he’s that stupid.  Andy knows he’s guilty and representing himself at trial would only hasten the prosecution’s case.

The Pre-trial hearing in in a week and my guess is that Andy will ask for another extension to give him time to think.  An accelerated trial would be a disaster for Andy, as he would at minimum be found guilty and be ordered to pay Ryion, Kyle and Chris back in full.  As always the full case update can be found here [PDF].