The Court forgets several things in their theory.
1) Such personal trust would make Ross the trustee and therefore Ross could pay Murphy's outstanding legal bill with those funds at Ross discretion.
2) Ross would not come to court for even five minutes if Murphy was not paying his bill in 2008.
3) There is no evidence that Ross accepted the funds for a "Trust Purpose" required for a Trust to be created. Those who paid attention in law school know that Trusts are created only when Capacity, Three Certainties, Constitution, and Formality is respected.
4) If Murphy wanted to buy a house in West Virginia, he would have given the money to his West Virginia settlement attorney he engaged for that purpose not his criminal defense lawyer in Maryland.
Ross put the money in the Court's account for unearned fees, and withdrew the money in 2008 in payment of those fees as the Murphy plainly admits in a sworn statement to their bank in November 2008. Ross is the only attorney paid from the SECU Account after 26 Jan 2008.