Jeremy Meeks, the alleged gang member who became an Internet sensation after his handsome mug shot was posted on a police Facebook site, is in talks with top designers to dress him during his trial, according to the MailOnline .
Tai Bogan, known as the Pitbull because of his ‘aggressive’ style of defense, has been secured by Meeks to represent him against gun and gang related charges. Meeks was in court on June 27 and during the five-minute hearing at San Joaquin County court in Stockton, California, he was forced to wear a regulation orange prison jumpsuit and have his hands shackled.
Bogan, who is being paid with money raised through a family Gofundme page, said that it was important that his client looked as ‘good as possible’ before a jury and to that end the family were close to signing designers to cloth him during his court appearances.
Bogan asked Judge Franklin Stephenson for permission for Meeks to wear civilian clothes during future preliminary hearings. He said that because his picture was posted ‘millions and millions’ of times on the Internet, it was prejudicial against a fair trial for him to be ‘in handcuffs and prison garb’.
Judge Stephenson declined the motion claiming it was in the best interest of security for Meeks to be shackled. However when Meeks finally appears before a jury for trial, it is the law that he will be able to wear his own clothes, Bogan told Mail Online.
After the hearing, Bogan said: ‘
We are talking to designers to provide clothing for him during this case. ‘We want him to look as good as possible in the court. We are worried that current pictures of him in prison garb will mean he will not get a fair trial.’Gina Rodriguez, who has guided V. Stiviano, the woman at the center of the Donald Sterling scandal, now represents Meeks. While Tom Ford is not dressing the hunky prisoner Rodriguez told Mail Online that:
'The modeling management we are working with has a stylist who was going to dress Jeremy in a Tom Ford suit.'
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