What’s the one thing you don’t want to do if you are a lawyer attempting to specialize in video game violence lawsuits? My guess is get kicked off of a case, setting a precedent that you’d be an unwise choice. In a lawsuit regarding GTA in Alabama, the judge seemed to be leaning towards removing Thompson from the defense team.

“You said after the criminal trial to ‘have at it’,” Thompson said. The judge had imposed a gag order on lawyers until Devin Moore’s trial was over.

“Your ‘have at it’ and my ‘have at it’ are not the same,” the judge replied.

Last night, Jack pulled a ‘You can’t fire me, I quit‘, removing himself from the case. I would surmise that this is primarily to keep him still potentially hireable in the future – after all, whose going to take you seriously in future Pixelante trials if you got forceably removed by the judge for inappropriate conduct on the last one.