Can&#x27;t you just pay your defense attorney after the trial, guilty or not, whenever your assets are unfrozen?<p>Assets frozen during trial that aren&#x27;t linked to any criminal activity can&#x27;t be permanently confiscated, so your defense attorney can just settle up your bill at the end of the trial, when the assets are unfrozen.  Maybe that&#x27;s not how it works now, but if this happens, then defense firms will have to do their billing this way.<p>Not ideal and I don&#x27;t see the point, but how is this a big deal?