Because they realized that it looks hopeless and they know if they lost they would be suicided...
Hunter, Jill and Joe should all be locked up for life. In a perfect world, executed for their terrible crimes.
My guess is that the lawyers realized they were representing hellbent murderers and criminals and didn't want their careers to end.
Prob b/c he and his father are bonafide traitors to their country and sold the american people out for cheap.
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