On top of working on Manziel’s assault case, Hinton also wrote that he is worried about his client’s personal welfare. “Heaven help us if one of the conditions is to pee in a bottle,” Hinton wrote in a text message.

An AP reporter had reached out to Hinton asking for comment on the former NFL quarterback’s involvement in a Monday hit-and-run. Hinton told the AP he intended to send his texts to another attorney working the case and threatened to sue if certain information was made public. Manziel faces up to one year in jail in the assault case.

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Hinton also texted that he was given a receipt that portrays Manziel as buying more than $1,000 at a drug paraphernalia store about 15 hours after the crash.

“I don’t know if the receipt is legitimate or not,” Hinton told the AP. “I just know that it doesn’t say Johnny’s name on it anywhere that I can see. It’s just that somebody in that store, I guess, circulated that to the other store managers and employees saying, ‘Guess who was here today and spent this amount of money.’ That’s all I know.”

Denise Michaels, Manziel’s spokesperson, issued a statement to the AP, calling the purchase “a rumor.”