Get the latest gossip
Could the Fugees Founding Member Actually Get a Retrial?
During a three-day hearing earlier this month, a federal judge just wanted to know why Michel’s former lawyer was so bad.
The fact that she called such a granular hearing at such a delicate time — Michel has been touring with his old bandmates Lauryn Hill and Wyclef Jean even as he awaits sentencing — indicated that Kollar-Kotelly found some of the arguments against Kenner to be credible. What emerged was a picture of a veteran workaholic attorney with a storied Los Angeles career (Kenner has litigated roughly 500 trials since 1968) whose management of Michel’s complex case could at best be described as overconfident and improvisational, and at worst self-dealing and deceptive. But D.C. is a long way from Hollywood, and despite a work ethic that often kept his younger colleagues scrambling to keep up, it was evident at the trial last year and the hearing this month in Washington that Kenner had lost a step and made questionable decisions, oftentimes without Michel’s input.
Or read this on VULTURE