Ok.  I watched it, and yeah very interesting situation, and the lead character Ray Trapani is not a very sympathetic character, and he kind of admits that in various places - so maybe it does show a bit of an injustice, but if there is a desire to cooperate first and to cooperate hard, then that cooperation can end up going a long ways - and maybe at some point he was taking the advice of an attorney to really clean up and to get into a kind of family situation that makes him a more sympathetic character in front of the judge or even if the prosecutor ended up getting on his side too .. .. ..and maybe one of the funny or maybe ironic parts was when they contacted a "big name" attorney, but the Big name attorney was just some 16-year old kid imitating an attorney.. yet they were so lost that they did not even realize that their supposed attorney was not even helping them.