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Jose Quinon on Ben Kuehne Indictment

I guess he's trying to be helpful:

If Kuehne is guilty of anything, it's of being naïve, said Jose Quinon, a solo Miami criminal defense attorney. Quinon represented Ochoa before Black, but withdrew from the case after failing to satisfy himself that the legal fees were entirely clean.

Quinon said Ochoa was ostensibly going to pay his legal fees through the sale of cattle. For Kuehne to travel to Colombia, where he does not speak the language, and oversee the sale of cattle was pure folly, Quinon said.

"Ben does not have street smarts," Quinon said. "What the hell does Ben know about cows? He's a city slicker. Ben doesn't do drug cases; he has no idea what the hell he is doing. They gave him documents and they were phony documents. He didn't know they were phony documents."

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Full post as published by South Florida Lawyers on March 18, 2008 (boomark / email).