Also consider his first stupid court appearance. Showing up extremely late and drunk, yelling at reporters, pissing off the judge by putting his hat back on, making faces at the audience, etc.He got a public defender to bother. Also, it is Hank's families' money. It is worth mentioning that he probably just realized the amount of shit he is in. For the longest time, he thought this whole thing was just a joke and he would get off easily. His public defender fed him false information by accident due to not knowing how big a mess he had made. Poor dude was panicking as it dawned on him that Smally did everything he should not have done and more. The new lawyer has inherited the mistakes.
This time he acted like he should have to begin with, because someone probably finally got it through his head how fucked he potentially is especially now with the next date not until the end of October, and then needing an actual closing arguments date after that assuming no more bullshit comes up for him in the meantime. He's already been lucky at least some businesses don't want to bother pressing charges because they just want him locked up and then gone so he's out of their lives permanently. But there's still more stupid shit he's streamed.