So, I think the right to be represented for many lawyers is like the right to free speech. If you're not willing to defend the worst, then you're not defending the right at all.
For his original charge, he only served 13 months in prison, in a private wing of the Palm Beach Jail w/private security detail, and was permitted up to 12 hours of work release each day. We have people who do longer, harder sentences for marijuana possession.
An unanswered question is why are judges and juries swayed by testimony or opinion which goes contrary to the spirit of the law, unless the law is unjust. I mean in this case, it appears to have rested on how certain things in the analogue world always meant something but then when it goes on to the digital world it should take on different meaning.
Obviously this is sensitive and has controversy, but why is the topic now flagged? It's not party politics, or other really sensitive subject.