It is not what may actually happen to your client, but what he thinks may happen, that makes him ready and anxious to give up his money.

Thus, the more artistic the practitioner in painting the dire consequences which will result if the family of the offender does not come to his rescue the quicker and larger will be the response.

Time also is necessary to enable the ancestral stocking to be grudgingly withdrawn from its hiding-place and its contents disgorged, or to allow the pathetic representations of his nearer relatives to work upon the callous heart of old Uncle John, who once held a city office and has thus plenty of money.
The object of the lawyer being to hang on to the client until he has got his money, it follows that if the latter is locked up in jail it is all the better for the lawyer, unless it be expedient to let him out to raise funds.

Thus criminal attorneys are not, as a rule, particularly anxious to secure the release of a client from jail.

Solitary confinement increases his apprehension and discomfort and renders him more complacent about paying well for liberty.