The Seventy-sevens had taken Scotty under their wing, which offered him a form of protection from people eager to recruit a guy that had killed someone with his fists.
Anthony Johnson visited him once every few days in order to collect information before they made a motion with the courts. Scotty began feeling like a journal that Anthony read—learning things about his activities that he had never shared with anyone. And there were times when talking about his past led the two young men into long reveries about their past at Walnut Hills High School and a friendship that ended for all the wrong reasons.
Scotty had released J. Alexander Rosenthal as his attorney because it seemed like a waste of money and effort. Besides why pay Rosenthal when Anthony's team was doing it all for free.