6time Financial Felon Sharon Logan is now using her nonprofit Paw Protectors page for ranting accusations against the lead investigator in the fraud and animal cruelty case against Steffen Baldwin — and implying Baldwin’s defense attorneys aren’t competent enough to find and use good evidence.

Keep in mind that 6Time, a California resident, didn’t attend most of Baldwin’s 3-week criminal trial in Ohio. She popped in on the last day for the last hour of testimony. (As usual, Logan chose to spend money on travel rather than paying the more than $600,000 of court-ordered criminal restitution she owes her many financial crime victims.)

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We weren’t there either, so we’ll just point out that Baldwin’s court-appointed defense attorneys seem to be providing him with the vigorous defense required by law. If there was any good evidence against the state, we’re confident they used it.

We highly doubt that the longtime career grifter’s Google searches, gossip, and dishonest posing turned up anything relevant and admissible that Baldwin’s paid investigator and experienced public defenders couldn’t find themselves — or didn’t use.

Many of Logan’s ungrammatical harangues against the detective appear misleading or false. But, as we know, Logan is fine with lying because, as someone with no assets, she isn’t afraid of being sued.

Despite Logan’s many, many turns as a criminal defendant, she misuses terms such as “mistrial.” A mistrial happens when one side does something impermissible to prejudice the jury against the other side.* But Baldwin waived jury; a judge will decide whether he is guilty. And you don’t get a mistrial when one side chooses not to present evidence on its own behalf.

Despite her lack of legal understanding, Logan does have a history of trying to latch onto attorneys socially and professionally. She has lied about having worked for lawyers, although the convicted embezzler did trick one firm into hiring her in 2021 to handle its money.

That firm fired her 10 months later for alleged incompetence and dishonesty, according to Labor Board records.

Whether Baldwin is guilty will be decided by the judge after receiving written closing arguments from both sides. Yesterday, the judge denied the defense’s oral motion (known in Ohio as a Rule 29 motion) to dismiss the case based on the state not presenting enough evidence to, even if true, support the charges.

That doesn’t mean Baldwin is guilty. The judge still has to decide if he believes enough of the evidence presented to convict Baldwin.

But denial of the Rule 29 motion means the court believes that, if the evidence presented is *true,* it’s enough to convict Baldwin on the charges.

A word on public defenders: They get a bad rap. Any time you hear someone complain they were convicted because they couldn’t afford a “real” attorney and just had a “public pretender,” disbelieve that person.

Public defenders get tons of experience being in the courtroom daily. They also know what the judge and prosecutors are likely to do.

Baldwin hired private attorneys at first. But he stiffed them out of more than $30,000, according to his bankruptcy petition, and had publicly funded attorneys thereafter. 

It’s common for defendants who are convicted to appeal. Often, they argue that they wouldn’t have been convicted if their attorneys had done what they were supposed to. This is known as an Ineffective Assistance of Counsel claim (IAC).

So, those who want to see Baldwin pay for his extensive, admitted dishonesty to the public and to dog owners should be happy when they see his defense pulling out all the stops.

That includes their unsuccessful motion, made on the eve of trial, claiming the entire prosecutor’s office should be disqualified from prosecuting Baldwin because many years before Baldwin’s crimes, he helped out one of the prosecutors on a couple of animal welfare cases. (If anything, we think that relationship would be helpful to Baldwin, not prejudicial.)

And have some sympathy for Baldwin’s lawyers, trying to do their job in the public interest. They have to deal with the shrill, nonsensical yammerings of an attention-grubbing grifter with multiple fraud convictions claiming she wants to “help.”

*Update: 6Time posted a response regarding mistrials on her anti-Boisot page. We responded in the comments: