He got her a plea deal that involved to fessing to significantly less than the entire amount that she was facing.
The overwhelming majority of cases result in a plea. I see no reason to believe that Nick secured a better plea bargain than a replacement level public defender, and a lot of reasons to believe that that's not the case.
That's what the judge was so pissed off about... she thought the thieving bitch should've got nailed way harder than the plea deal that Nick got her.
"Oh he represented a terrible person and got them a good plea deal!"
I don't know if that's an accurate characterization of what happened.
What happened is that there was a plea deal where the prosecution recommended a sentence of 49 months under the guidelines, and the judge sentenced her to 49 months.
IIRC, Nick wrote a 20-something page document asking for her to be sentenced to probation because she found out her husband was gay, complete with character references from her church friends. Remember, according to the victims, they were victimized to the tune of $600,000 to $800,000, though the amount she was sentenced to pay in restitution was about half that.
I think that if Judge Fischer was pissed off about anything, it was the absurdity of counsel for someone convicted of embezzlement on such a scale would even think of asking for no jail time. I wouldn't be surprised if she made clear that the motion Nick filed had worth only as a substitute for toilet paper. But remember we only have a couple sentences of what Judge Fischer actually said at sentencing transcribed in news articles and the rest of our impression comes from Nick ranting about her on the Internet.
And we're discussing Nick getting slapped with an ethics complaint because he got drunk and ranted about an attorney on the Internet, an attorney who was representing some lolcow Nick is getting sued by because Nick got drunk and ranted about him on the Internet. The ethics complaint is being investigated by the Minnesota Office of Lawyers Professional Responsibility, an entity Nick has gotten drunk and ranted about on the Internet, and the lawsuit is being presided over by Judge Fischer, who Nick has
also ranted about on the Internet.
There comes a point where I'm not going to take his word at face value anymore.