He felt trapped by the money situation, so he chose to go with Cat's offer, but he knows that in the long run, Jake will represent him much better than Bo Marsharfsky. Carl Lee explains that he's in a really hard situation and has never had to make these decisions before. Jake asks Carl Lee why he wants him to represent him. After a long, tense silence, Carl Lee asks Jake to represent him again. Jake enters the cell with Lester and Carl Lee as if he doesn't know why he's there. He and Carl Lee get into a shouting match, and eventually Ozzie Walls calls Jake to come down to the station at Carl Lee's request. The Reverend supports Carl Lee and worries that if he is represented by Bo Marsharfsky, the jury will consider him guilty by association.įinally, Lester drives to town and talks to Carl Lee at the jail. He advises Carl Lee to ditch Bo Marsharfsky for the same reasons Jake gives Marsharfsky has a reputation in the community for representing crooks, pimps, and guilty murderers. A legendary Black minister and civil rights leader, Reverend Isaiah Street, also visits Carl Lee in jail.

Sure enough, Leroy tells Carl Lee that Marsharfsky hasn't touched his case file since he took him on as a client. Carl Lee is Leroy's cellmate, and Jake knows that if he tells Leroy negative information about Marsharfsky, the information will be related to Carl Lee without directly implicating him in solicitation. Jake continues to feed his new client, Leroy Glass, information about how Bo Marsharfsky is a crook in a roundabout effort to solicit Carl Lee's case back.

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