He ain’t got no real bread he’s a court appointed lawyer
no the fukk he ain't breh, don't let that act fool you. they gave that devil the police union hookup:
Despite appearances, Nelson is hardly working solo. Nelson, a private attorney with the firm
Halberg Criminal Defense, has plenty of help from the
Minneapolis Police and Peace Officers Association's legal defense fund.
The legal fund carries the financial weight, including attorneys' salaries, despite Chauvin being fired from the Minneapolis Police Department the day after Floyd's death May 25. The firing came hours after the police chief saw a viral video of Chauvin pressing his knee into Floyd's neck for more than nine minutes.
But colleagues and clients have described Nelson as steel-nerved and one of "the best defense attorneys."
Nelson, 46, is a founding partner at Halberg Defense, one of the largest criminal defense firms in the region, according to law partner Marsh Halberg.
But he also successfully defended multiple homicide suspects, including a man accused of fatally shooting an unarmed neighbor in 2017 and he successfully argued self-defense for 20-year-old Levi Acre-Kendall in a deadly lakeside stabbing in 2015.
He’s now exclusively practicing criminal defense law and one of only 12 attorneys in a rotation the Minnesota Police and Peace Officers Association uses to represent its members.
MPPOA Executive Director Brian Peters told the Associated Press that to become an attorney on the rotation "is not very easy."
"You are vetted very aggressively," he said. "That’s why we have 12 of the best defense attorneys on our panel."