Thread: -The Docket-

I'll work on getting a picture of that pipe shortly. I have some hopes of getting into administrative law, unfortunately the legal field in this area has dried up somewhat. The Economy has hit some hard times, but I'm ever hopeful that things will pick up. My Grandfather had been a corporate lawyer after serving in Jag during WWII I wouldn't mind dabbling in that either. It's just that young attorneys right now are a dime a dozen. Too much supply, not enough demand. I love parts of criminal law, and despise other parts of it. I hate the bureaucracy of it, and the inflexibility of the prosecutors. But I love some of the crazy shit I have seen, and even laughing at some of my clients. I admit, shallow yes...but when you get caught for pulling out 16 stop signs in a row, all while a marked police cruiser is following you...something isn't right. Oddly, I also enjoy using the cops against the prosecutors. There are some good cops out there, but I find that, especially in the smaller towns, you have pretentious thugs who think the law doesn't apply to them, because they have a piece of metal pinned to their shirt. I got one case thrown out because a guy couldn't open his car door. It was an old Ford explorer which had faulty door handles. It could only be opened from the outside. The brilliant cops refused to open, said the guy was resisting, tazed him not once, twice, three times, but seven. And it was all on tape. They then found one pill of Ecstasy, and a half ounce of synthetic marijuana in a plastic baggy which he was sitting on...they pulled this guy out of the car, through the window and this is all in front of his wife, mind you and kicked him several times. Then, after they hauled him off to the hospital for stitches, they tried to open the car door from the inside, and found that it wouldn't, as he said, open. I had a field day with that. After playing the DVD to the prosecutor who stared at me like I just had carnal relations with his sister, said..I'm not going to drop the charges. He swallowed when I grinned, oh he knew what was coming next, Come on counselor, put that in writing. Please do that now, I said. W-why? he retorted unsure of himself. Because, I'm going to go to the judge with this tape, and say that you refused to acknowledge a problem of abuse of authority within your little Sheriff's department here. Next up is that son-of-a-btich Michael Zimmerman, who made a name for himself suing this country before. He'll take on this client for a reduced fee, because I referred him, and he'll mop the floor with the country. You don't need that, after you already have a suit for letting an inmate rot in jail for 190 days, when she was only supposed to be in there for 48 hours. If I were you, I'd weigh my options, and quickly...I'm giving you exactly 30 seconds to make up your mind. Well, case dismissed, I still sent the client to Zimmerman, and that suit is ongoing. These cops act like just because someone does drugs they stop being human, or people. That's bullshit and they know it. Frankly, I wish we'd do away with the drug laws and pursue the real criminals, people like the triple murderer going through the system now. Or, the drunkard who killed a family, by driving the wrong way down the freeway. I'm not the only defense attorney who feels this way either. There are so many better uses for county funds. I have been mulling the idea of putting this stuff in a blog. I write it down as a way to decompress. If I held in half this shit, I know my mind would be poisoned. Everyone has to have a coping mechanism, or else the darkness of it all could encompass us. If there is one thing I have noticed about the attorneys, such as myself, who actually try for their clients...we have similar personalities, or else we wouldn't be drawn to what we're doing. Good defense attorneys and their clients both dislike authority. I didn't realize how true that was, until I saw the inner workings of the system for myself.