Talk:The Just and the Unjust

I think the issues around Abner Coates are more central to the novel than the trial itself. In other words this is not a "courtroom drama". You wouldn't call "By Love Possesed" a novel about financial wrongdoings and date rape. Likewise Guard of Honor is not "about" racial discrimination and poor parachute technique. The incidents are there to show the depth of the people rather than people being described because of the role in the plot.

Peter Reilly (talk) 16:36, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

Only Basso has a public defender
Robert Basso is the only one of the defendants certified as indigent and provided a public defender (George Stacey). Howell paid Wurts a few hundred dollars to defend him. I don't remember it being mentioned specifically that Leming paid Servadei's firm, but there is a strong implication that this is the case. Servadei is the one who helps Leming agree to testify in order to have his trial severed from that of Howell and Basso. Cozzens make the remark that the money Howell got to pay Wurts likely came from the ransom money obtained from Cohen. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.70.100.187 (talk) 19:31, 4 August 2010 (UTC)