@catmanmancat @Terry A law firm says they no longer represent a client, a guy on Twitter guesses that this means the defense attorneys quit: it's not often that you see the first two levels of the game of telephone happen in the same screenshot. And then everyone around here assumes that it's accurate and not retarded and keeps going with the "80s sitcom mom explains sports to other 80s sitcom mom" routine.

"He's definitely guilty" is not a valid reason to drop a case. Defense attorneys don't do this. They no longer represent him; the way more likely case is that he (or whoever makes his decisions) dropped them.

It's usually either about money or strategy. "There's no way this video plays in front of a jury and you walk, take the deal, you should have taken the deal before they introduced this video because they're going to offer a worse deal now" is a really unpopular thing for a defense attorney to say, clients don't like that if they think they can win or if the deal the prosecutor's office is offering is something like 15 years and the defense thinks they can get it down to 10 and the defendant would rather gamble with getting a life sentence than just take the 10 and be out in eight.

Another likely explanation is that they're going to trial; in a big case, you don't often keep the same attorney for the pretrial litigation and negotiation as you use for the actual trial.