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NEXT! Robert (Fat Bobby) Paduano, who prosecutors...

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NEXT! Robert (Fat Bobby) Paduano, who prosecutors say tried to become the cocaine czar of Newport Beach, has had four sets of defense lawyers since his drug arrest in February, 1988. . . . Now insiders say he will add as his co-counsel J. Tony Serra, above, of San Francisco, the ponytailed, counterculture defense lawyer after whom last year’s hit movie “True Believer” was patterned. . . . Serra had good luck in Orange County. In 1988, he won acquittal for Richard Dale Wilson, accused of murdering a man about to be tried for killing Wilson’s fiancee.

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