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The day after firing his first lawyer, Cameron Flick was assigned a second counsel from the court roster named Marcia Kendall.

That association lasted twenty-six hours, after which Flick fired Kendall for “insufficient attention to the gravity of my situation.”

Milo called and told me. “Gonna be a while before we’re rid of him. He’s obviously playing games.”

I said, “Is there a limit how far he can take it?”

“I asked Nguyen. He says when you pay your own way you can manipulate for a while but with court-appointed counsel it’s up to the judge. Luckily for Flick he got one of the D.A.’s buddies on the bench, total moron, believes bad guys can do no wrong. So who the hell knows? I’ll keep you posted if anything changes.”

It did. But not the way either of us expected.

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On the third day of his incarceration, Cameron Flick summoned a jail deputy and announced that he’d be serving as his own counsel. Then he said he wanted to talk to Milo.