[pixl97]

>His lawyers were objectively bad.

No, his lawyers were deliberately bad. There is a massive difference.

While no direct evidence, it's almost certain that Jones when to a good lawyer at first who told him that "He was most utterly and unanimously fucked" in which Jones did the you better call Saul and got himself lawyers that would try anything at all to muck up the system. While your first response may be "No bar lawyer would do something that could lose their license", after many years doing computer work in the Texas legal system and seeing myriads of interactions, my response is "Yes they fucking would".

Jones chose poor lawyers because good ones ran away screaming after he told them what he wanted to do.