If the money hungry lawyers won't represent him why were they representing him in the first place why bail out right before the hearing? Why won't the judge delay the hearing so the new lawyers can get up to speed? Judges delay things all the time even on the biggest bull shit cases. And emails are admissible in court an email is basically a written form of a conversation. How about emailing or faxing a contract I do it all the time.
For example many years ago I walked out of a bar rubbed my eye and my contact fell out. Then I walked right into a cop rounding the corner of the building because I couldn't see. Cops hassled me and then told me to be on my way. I was walking to my tuck to get my glasses and was jumped by two cops hit in the stomach and face several times forced into the cop car without being arrested in from of several witnesses. The next day I was charged with a bunch of bullshit. Point is the prosecutor delayed the trial 6 times in his hunt for evidence against me finally my lawyer made a motion that the prosecutor was intentionally delayed the trial because there was no evidence and the judge set a finale trial date. On the day of the trial the prosecutor approached my lawyer and tried to make a deal 'you give me this trial and I'll give you one latter on' my lawyer said no I had been assaulted, unlawfully confined and had false charges filed . At that point to prosecutor decided to drop the charges and I didn't have to even go in the court house. Mind you I had to live under very strict bail condition for 8 months it cost me thousands in lawyers and I couldn't even charge the cops with assault because there is a three month statute of limitations for police in my area and I couldn't press charges until after my day in court which took 8 months. The cops even threatened me after court and the matter had to be brought up to their supervisor.