 Often, Shawn will accept a case without fully checking out the client or the details itself yet brush it off.In "Let's Doo Wop It Again", he said "It's more fun to keep things from Lassie" [Lassiter], which eventually resulted in Gus's friends getting kidnapped, and in "True Grits", he asked Officer McNab to withhold evidence from Juliet (McNab refused).He also told Juliet that 'Santa Barbara would be Detroit' if it weren't for him.