NEXT! Robert (Fat Bobby) Paduano, who prosecutors...
NEXT! Robert (Fat Bobby) Paduano, who prosecutors say tried to become the cocaine czar of Newport Beach, has had four sets of defense lawyers since his drug arrest in February, 1988. . . . Now insiders say he will add as his co-counsel J. Tony Serra, above, of San Francisco, the ponytailed, counterculture defense lawyer after whom last year’s hit movie “True Believer” was patterned. . . . Serra had good luck in Orange County. In 1988, he won acquittal for Richard Dale Wilson, accused of murdering a man about to be tried for killing Wilson’s fiancee.
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