Finding Money for Defense – Part 4

A couple of posts ago, I mentioned that Steve’s first attorney, Roland Mathis, within his first six or seven months, had been paid $7,500 by Newbold and Vanderhoop (N&V), our mother’s lawyers, and that money was borrowed against Steve’s eventual inheritance. Within nine months that amount had risen to $27,928. Steve and Robin paid N&V …

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Finding Money for Defense – Part 3

A Trip to Florida Portions of this post also appear in Aggravated. In the chapter of Aggravated called, The Long Wait Before the Trial, I talked briefly about a trip Steve took to Florida to earn some money. Here’s a more detailed account of what he did. Parts of this post were used in the …

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Finding Money For Defense – Part 1

Portions of this post also appear in Aggravated. Steve and Robin were making decent money at the time the charges were filed. Robin was working as an engineering tech at a manufacturing firm, and by 2004 had been with them for twenty-four years. Steve seriously pursued a career as a club DJ after high school, …

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