Poor “indigent” Andy Esquivel accepts public defender…

Posted on August 16, 2012 in Trial Updates Xtagged

Poor little Andy Esquivel appeared for his pre-trial conference on Tuesday morning and finally admitted that he’s too broke to pay an attorney and that he isn’t capable of representing himself.

In the latest case update (obtained by Xtagged.co from the court and uploaded here) the court found Andy Esquivel to be “indigent” (adjective: [in-di-juhnt] – lacking food, clothing, and other necessities of life because of poverty; needy; poor; impoverished) and incapable of paying for his own counsel.  The court therefore appointed Andy a public defender to help represent him at the upcoming trial.  Another pre-trial conference was scheduled for August 28th with the new state funded (free) lawyer.

Below are the minutes from the pre-trial conference for review:

The parties are unable to reach a resolution.

In other words, Andy, being broke and unemployed, can’t afford to accept a plea deal because he’d have to pay the victims back with money he doesn’t have and can’t scam from his uncles and aunts, who are now onto his criminal activity – thanks in no small part to this website.

Defendant requests to proceed with the trial and will represent
himself.
Mr. Lyon indicates he had advised the defendant the Right to
Counsel and asks the Court to recite the defendant’s rights to him.
The Court advises the defendant of his Right to Counsel.
Defendant acknowledges his rights and waives his Right to Counsel.
Defendant requests to proceed with the trial.
Based on the record, the jury trial scheduled for October 24, 25,
and 26, 2012 at 8:30 a.m. will go forward.
TIME: 1:15 PM
This matter is recalled on the court’s calendar.

Andy is adamant that he wants to go forward with the trial and represent himself.  Nathan has tried to explain that he’s facing serious charges and should really take the public defender, but Andy refuses for two reasons:

1. He’d have to admit that he’s broke, which flies in the face of his assertions over the last several years that his companies are worth billions, he’s selling out all his product lines, and has armies of lawyers working to sue people like Ryion Butcher, Bump.com and me.
2. Andy would have to confess that all the conspiracy theories he told his minions about this website somehow corrupting all the public defenders in the state, were figments of his deranged imagination…begging the question, what else has Andy made up?

Mr. Arrington indicates that the defendant has changed his mind
and would like to be represented by counsel.

Key phrase in this notation: “defendant has changed his mind.”  That represents a recurring pattern for Andy.  Once upon a time Andy had investors, sold Xtagged for millions of dollars, launched an e-cigarette at a casino on an infomercial in front of a studio audience, was suing various people using teams of lawyers from his offices in Los Angeles and Las Vegas, had sold out his entire stock of an alcoholic energy drink, etc…  All that changed at some point because Andy Esquivel “changed his mind.”

Defendant is indigent
and requests a public defender to represent him.

In other words, Andy is BROKE!!!  He doesn’t have a job and lives with his mother.  Poor guy.  If you have any questions about this assertion, just watch the last video Andy published where morons-in-common Allen Brady and Ron Kelsay admit that they had to bail Andy out of jail and where Andy brags that he will not be paying them back because it’s against his principles.

Mr. Arrington
requests the Court to appoint Mr.
Albright to represent the defendant.
State has no objections.
Under the circumstances, the Court grants the request and appoints
Mr. Albright as public defender. Mr. Arrington will notify Mr.
Albright.

Andy’s NEW, new attorney is William Albright.

A pretrial conference is set for 8/28/2012 at 8:30 a.m. The Court
will leave the jury trial dates in place until Mr. Albright has had
a chance to review the case.

Andy’s new attorney is going to try to convince Andy to plead guilty to avoid spending time in jail, since the evidence is overwhelmingly stacked against him.  A deal isn’t likely however because Andy can’t afford to pay the Utah victims back and this would doubtless be a condition of any plea deal his attorney negotiates.  It would also of course require Andy to admit to the world that he is a fraud.