Who killed the guy found in the river?

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The DA had WAAAAY too much concern for a small time ALLEGED crim than was normal, so that question is left hanging from the very start, ie WHY

as it starts the DA has already done a botched assassination of Pinero, who hired Vail to do a compensation [or attempted murder?] claim against the DA himself [ie where the buck stops].

we can assume the same black judge went easy on DA and case dismissed

we see first scene where Vail has mounted an APPEAL and of course DA would have little control over a Full Bench, SO he wants to do an out of court settlement [with public money mind you] and tells Vail to be in office in morning

it goes through but Pinero will not leave town so ShawnAssy tries to bribe Vail at lunch to no avail [npi]

finally DA hires BETTER cops to do a better job via concrete boots, and of course DA office refuses to investigate.

Vail comes in back door by calling ShawnAssy to the box and does just that ie saws his ass off

we are not shown if he gets to charged with murder etc but we can be sure he is no longer DA, and you can see he knows that when Vail says "that was for Joey, *beep*

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