Looking dapper in a blue-grey blazer and dark sweater, the lawyer for i nternational drug kingpin Ryan Wedding , Deepak “cocaine lawyer” Paradkar, sat in the prisoner’s box in a downtown Toronto courthouse hoping for bail on Thursday.

How the mighty have fallen.

Usually arguing before the bench, the flashy lawyer who once told me he modelled himself after larger-than-life American attorneys like F. Lee Bailey and Johnny Cochran is now the one charged with shocking crimes in the U.S. that carry a mandatory life sentence on conviction, including allegations he counselled Wedding to murder a government witness in Colombia.

The now-bearded Paradkar, 62, was arrested Nov. 18 and is being held at Toronto East Detention Centre under an extradition warrant. His release plan includes $5 mi

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