It's an offer you can't refuse.
It'll be easy she assured me he wants to plead to a restraining order violation.
Right I'm thinking. She doesn't know me very well.
I don't plead clients if I can talk them out of it.
So it wasn't a TRO violation but rather a probation violation
My guy is officially he Hunterdon county, NJ village idiot and drunk.
Woo hoo.
The underlying offense.
Some alcoholic chick who was living with he and his father screwing 'em both had a row with my guy one day.
He wanted to sleep she wanted his attention.
He got up in a fit grabbed her arms there were words said and that was it.
She called the cops a TRO was issued.
The father ran her out of the house right away.
My guy went home after court knowing she wasn't there any longer
Cops saw him go home and Bingo a Violation of the TRO cause the court papers had his address as her domicile.
He ended up with some miserable excuse for a lawyer ( the kind who gives PDs a bad name) who failed entirely to get the fact that chick was not domiciled there when he returned.
Later my guy the village idiot and town drunk fails to complete his Alcohol rehab and fails to make 5 ( yup count 'em 5) Probation appointments.
His version is that he was told three times "I don't want to see you any more" by his probation officer.
The same officer who told me on the phone that my guy is the town drunk and village idiot. What did he thing the moron would conclude?
And his reason for failing to complete the rehab outpatient was due to his right leg having suffered multiple surgeries several metal pins and plates in his foot and knee surgery and he couldn't walk the 2 miles and was broke cause his craft was warehouse work and he can't do the heavy lifting any more after all that surgery.
It gets better:
The state wants the maximum 6 months prison. He's already spent over 90 days in lockup.
I smelled a rat.
Meanwhile the judge had a sealed child custody hearing that ran hours and hours over time leaving me on my ass in the halls with about 30 other people. By the time the judge got to my case ( my pro bono case) I had over 5 hours invested in the courthouse.
"It'll be easy" the chick said~!! I'm thinking no good deed goes unpunished.
So I told the court no plea and I want a full hearing and I'm blaming the state for his failures.
And I gotta go back on the 37th .
Should I have just let them railroad the village idiot?
It'll be easy she assured me he wants to plead to a restraining order violation.
Right I'm thinking. She doesn't know me very well.
I don't plead clients if I can talk them out of it.
So it wasn't a TRO violation but rather a probation violation
My guy is officially he Hunterdon county, NJ village idiot and drunk.
Woo hoo.
The underlying offense.
Some alcoholic chick who was living with he and his father screwing 'em both had a row with my guy one day.
He wanted to sleep she wanted his attention.
He got up in a fit grabbed her arms there were words said and that was it.
She called the cops a TRO was issued.
The father ran her out of the house right away.
My guy went home after court knowing she wasn't there any longer
Cops saw him go home and Bingo a Violation of the TRO cause the court papers had his address as her domicile.
He ended up with some miserable excuse for a lawyer ( the kind who gives PDs a bad name) who failed entirely to get the fact that chick was not domiciled there when he returned.
Later my guy the village idiot and town drunk fails to complete his Alcohol rehab and fails to make 5 ( yup count 'em 5) Probation appointments.
His version is that he was told three times "I don't want to see you any more" by his probation officer.
The same officer who told me on the phone that my guy is the town drunk and village idiot. What did he thing the moron would conclude?
And his reason for failing to complete the rehab outpatient was due to his right leg having suffered multiple surgeries several metal pins and plates in his foot and knee surgery and he couldn't walk the 2 miles and was broke cause his craft was warehouse work and he can't do the heavy lifting any more after all that surgery.
It gets better:
The state wants the maximum 6 months prison. He's already spent over 90 days in lockup.
I smelled a rat.
Meanwhile the judge had a sealed child custody hearing that ran hours and hours over time leaving me on my ass in the halls with about 30 other people. By the time the judge got to my case ( my pro bono case) I had over 5 hours invested in the courthouse.
"It'll be easy" the chick said~!! I'm thinking no good deed goes unpunished.
So I told the court no plea and I want a full hearing and I'm blaming the state for his failures.
And I gotta go back on the 37th .
Should I have just let them railroad the village idiot?
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Re: Soo the Pro Bono office tapped me yesterday
Thu, September 13, 2007 - 3:57 PMWhat did said want to do?
And could a phone call to the prosecutor, seeking a plea in exchange for time served, be so very wrong or otherwise unreasonable? -
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Re: Soo the Pro Bono office tapped me yesterday
Thu, September 13, 2007 - 4:16 PMI personally prefer the hearing date set for the 37th . . . yes, I do! THAT is a stroke of genius . . . thinking outside the box and the month, too! I wish they had Nobel Prizes for lawyers . . .
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Re: Soo the Pro Bono office tapped me yesterday
Fri, September 14, 2007 - 4:25 AM
*******And could a phone call to the prosecutor, seeking a plea in exchange for time served, be so very wrong or otherwise unreasonable?*******
Prolly, if I knew which of the asshole prosecutors it was going to be on such short notice and wasn’t picking my discovery up from Probation just before the hearing and had already been told by the Proby guy that he wanted maximums. I preferred at that point to spend my energy milking him for technical flaws in his performance on the off chance that his ego would reveal adequate errors on which to hang my hat. The error is that my guy is guilty of “contempt of ministerial agent” by being a pain in the ass.
In my county the prosecutors use maximums for E-V-E-RY-T-H-I-N-G. They always do exactly what enforcement wants and enforcement always wants everything they can get. It’s a rural county there is nothing for them to do so everything is a “project”. We have had what maybe two crimes since the Mayflower crossed: The Lindbergh baby and that ball player who shot a limo driver. And true to form the Probation guy wants maximums.
I am guessing that when they eventually get a real crime that there will be a great hue and cry to increase the maximums. ‘Cause clearly, they are not adequate.
*********I personally prefer the hearing date set for the 37th . . . yes, I do! THAT is a stroke of genius . . . thinking outside the box and the month, too! I wish they had Nobel Prizes for lawyers . . .***********
I think that mere crappy typing disqualifies me for the Nobel. However, I accept the nomination. Replace the 3 with a 2 and you’ll be golden – or I will - - some one will.
Wouldn’t it be great if the court made that mistake?
OK See ya then~!!
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Re: Soo the Pro Bono office tapped me yesterday
Thu, September 27, 2007 - 12:53 PMWell this one came and went.
Gotta say he'd have spent a lott-o-dough had he not been pro bono.
(hey that rhythms)
I set him free. he is out prison tomorrow at 9:00 AM with time served & no strings attached.
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Re: Soo the Pro Bono office tapped me yesterday
Thu, September 27, 2007 - 1:44 PMI take it he pleaded out, and you were able to convince someone that a maximum sentence wasn't worth the effort? -
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Re: Soo the Pro Bono office tapped me yesterday
Thu, September 27, 2007 - 2:46 PMIndeed. He took a plea but only for time served. The proby guy was really pissed at me but, once I had him stating on the record that he wanted to keep the guy locked up "for his own good" I knew I had him dead to rights. Even the judge snickered.
This was almost a section 1983 case just waiting to be litigated.
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