Shannon Smith, one of Larry Nassar's defense attorneys, gave an interview with WWJ Newsradio 950 legal analyst Charlie Langton during which she said a "huge part" of herself doesn't believe the accusations of some of his victims. She also defended the former USA Gymnastics doctor's "treatments" as legitimate. “There were girls who had perfectly normal lives that never questioned the medical treatment done by Nassar—and there is a legitimate medical treatment that involves touching sensitive areas and even penetrations. Some of those girls, to be quite frank, they didn’t even know what to think because they never felt victimized. He was never inappropriate to them. And because of everything they’ve seen, they just feel like they must have been victimized. And I think that’s really unfortunate.”

And while the public has been privy to the emotional statements of almost 200 young women, Smith isn't buying it, calling into question how this could have happened with parents in the room during appointments. She says, “I have a very hard time believing that my client could have even possibly assaulted that many people day in and day out in front of their parents, and that every single one of those things was a crime, but he was such a manipulator he got away with it. I just can’t imagine that’s true."

Smith, who has been on Nassar's case since the beginning, even goes so far as to call him a good person. “I think Larry Nassar comes off as a really great person. There is no doubt he did a lot of good for a lot of his patients,” she said. “While people are criticizing the techniques he used, there is undeniably proof that those techniques would take a girl who came into his office unable to walk and fix her in a way that she was able to compete the next day. So I see good in Larry Nassar.”

It should be noted that Nassar has pleaded guilty to multiple counts of criminal sexual misconduct and federal child pornography charges. Smith says it is her duty to make sure the process is fair and that her client is getting a good defense but also that, "I have no problem representing somebody like Larry Nassar. I actually feel like I get energized from the fact that other people don’t understand and don’t appreciate what our constitution is about.”

We're sure Nassar's survivors might have a slight different opinion.