In late 2007, Harlow wrote his friend a letter that he called “The Plan,” detailing a public-image campaign ahead of the upcoming trial. Convinced that jurors associate poor fashion sense with guilt, Harlow urges his friend to get rid of photos of Harlow wearing an ill-fitting pair of jeans:

Remember it’s the jeans that made me look like I have a fat ass, not my fat ass that makes those jeans look fat … A good-looking defendant is harder to sentence.

Harlow added that he was glad that all references to his self-given nickname — “The Stud Wonder” — had been removed from his website, and he expressed relief that he had shaved the morning of his arrest, allowing him to work “the youth killer look” in his mug-shot. Near the end of the letter, Harlow writes, “I have also taken prayer a little more seriously.” Now there’s a good idea.

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Letter detail’s Cuadra’s anxieties (Times Ledger)