They are not working for free. Lin Wood raised a few million for the defense and hooked Kyle up with some criminal lawyers who are handling the case. Lin isn't getting paid, but the criminal lawyers are getting paid a ton.
As they should be tbh. If you want them to dedicate all their time to the case and have full buy-in to get our guy out, it's worth paying to have them be able to solely focus on this case. The Left wants everything free but people who worked hard to get where they are deserve compensation for their work.
If he wins they should then sue for defamation and damages in civil court, as well as legal fees which should make up the cost anyways. Like Sandman got a ton of money from Lin Wood representing him.
Don't think a plaintiff can get legal fees in a defamation case, but hopefully Kyle can get something.
I agree the defense attorneys should be paid. My only concern was them spending all that time and money fighting extradition when there was never any chance Kyle would not be extradited and he was having to stay in jail the whole time. Seemed it would have been much better for Kyle to not fight being sent to WI and then using the $2MM+ in defense funds that had been raised to promptly bail him out so he could be at home or in school. The attorneys could still get paid at the end of the case when the bail $ is returned. Yes, they would have to delay getting paid for a while and probably front some expenses, but this case should not take years to get resolved and isn't going to require a bunch of expensive experts so I would not think that would be a huge deal. Especially not for a high powered law firm.
I don't remember who but his defense volunteered to defend him for free I think it was the wood guy
They are not working for free. Lin Wood raised a few million for the defense and hooked Kyle up with some criminal lawyers who are handling the case. Lin isn't getting paid, but the criminal lawyers are getting paid a ton.
As they should be tbh. If you want them to dedicate all their time to the case and have full buy-in to get our guy out, it's worth paying to have them be able to solely focus on this case. The Left wants everything free but people who worked hard to get where they are deserve compensation for their work.
If he wins they should then sue for defamation and damages in civil court, as well as legal fees which should make up the cost anyways. Like Sandman got a ton of money from Lin Wood representing him.
Don't think a plaintiff can get legal fees in a defamation case, but hopefully Kyle can get something.
I agree the defense attorneys should be paid. My only concern was them spending all that time and money fighting extradition when there was never any chance Kyle would not be extradited and he was having to stay in jail the whole time. Seemed it would have been much better for Kyle to not fight being sent to WI and then using the $2MM+ in defense funds that had been raised to promptly bail him out so he could be at home or in school. The attorneys could still get paid at the end of the case when the bail $ is returned. Yes, they would have to delay getting paid for a while and probably front some expenses, but this case should not take years to get resolved and isn't going to require a bunch of expensive experts so I would not think that would be a huge deal. Especially not for a high powered law firm.