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Even corporate defense lawyers are wary of regarding Mizelle’s decision as anything but an outlier — for now.

A Times article about Vander Molen’s cross-examination at trial said that “their cousin conceded she told defense lawyers about the abuse only after visiting the brothers in jail.”

“I’m not going to let him sit in that jail a day longer than he has to,” said defense lawyer Marc Agnifilo outside a New York federal courtroom Wednesday.

California did not enact a law requiring such circumstances until after the shooting, and the law could not be applied retroactively, the defense lawyers argued.

So he's speaking with his defense lawyers, understanding what the legal questions that were remaining, and again there were plenty of them.