Bristol Palin's future mother-in-law has a fancy new lawyer

By GottaLaff

I wonder who's paying for Lawbooks McHotshot... Sarah Palin maybe? Or perhaps Sherry sold enough Oxycontin to Rush Limbaugh to be able to save up:

Sherry Johnston came to court Friday morning with an entourage -- son Levi, daughter Mercedes, and her new attorney, prominent Anchorage defense lawyer Rex Butler.

Johnston left with a new trial date: May instead of March.

The 42-year-old pleaded not guilty last month to six felony counts of possessing and selling the prescription painkiller OxyContin. [...]

Her arrest received national attention because her son, Levi Johnston, 18, is the father of Gov. Sarah Palin's grandson, Tripp, born in December. [...]

With the presidential election over and the national media long gone, no one paid special attention to the group, though Superior Court Judge Eric Smith did ask one of the young men to remove his ball cap.

Butler told Smith that he filed notice Friday morning that he was taking over as Johnston's lawyer, replacing a state-funded attorney from the Office of Public Advocacy. He asked Smith to push back the trial to allow him to get up to speed on the case.

Smith set a new trial date of May 18.

Butler [is]one of the busiest defense attorneys in Anchorage...

Now Sherry can say the Butler did it.