When I asked if Kanarek was paid to defend Manson, he smiled wryly and said that he was, but that confidentiality prevented him from revealing by whom. “It would be big news,” he said. “It might surprise you.” (If Kanarek had a benefactor, another lawyer later told me, that white knight wasn’t generous—Kanarek apparently spent most of the trial living out of his car and sleeping in the press room at the courthouse.)
