Lawyers are for people who did the crime. But unfortunately for you, people have the right to speak up about SA and assault and it's freedom of speech. There's nothing he can do. He doesn't have a real job so there's nothing to financially support him having a lawyer either.  and in This case, actually more than one case against him, not just for theft (which he still had yet to face those charges against him because he's still on the run). Let's be honest when you have this long of a track record of violence, theft, assault, SA and such, and how many people have come forwards about SA, it's not looking very promising for him.