David Anthony Burke, better known as D4vd , is accused of killing teen runaway, Celeste Rivas Hernandez and leaving her dismembered remains in the trunk of his impounded Tesla. Those allegations are monstrous. But as always, the public is being fed the version police and prosecutors want released, in the order they want it released, with all the usual chest-thumping about how overwhelming their case supposedly is. At this point, nobody outside the courtroom should pretend to know exactly what happened. What we do know is that the accusation alone creates a mountain of poison for the defense, and even the best lawyers in California do not wave a wand and make poison disappear. That is where Blair Berk enters the picture. Berk is the kind of lawyer Hollywood hires when the stakes are catastrophic and the client cannot afford a stumble, a fool, or a grandstander. She is not there for decoration. She is there because this case has the smell of legal napalm, and cases like that do not g...