The man consulted with ChatGPT, according to Mary Warner, a criminal defense attorney in New Jersey. However, when he came to my office, I told him that there was a victim,” Warner told Straight Arrow. They have the right numbers, but then they have the completely wrong meaning,” Samuel Jay, a public defender in New Mexico, told Straight Arrow. Criminal defense is not simply a matter of finding a statute and matching it to a set of facts. “A good criminal defense attorney can learn a person’s story and tell it with empathy and intentionality.