Batting .500

In a whirlwind of activity over the last two weeks I managed to have my first and second trials in Superior Court. First up was an armed robbery with pretty clear surveilance video. My client was arrested a week after this robbery, but there was hardly any evidence against him. I got an acquittal on the only charge!! Next was an aggravated assault with a self-defense claim. The jury didn't buy the self-defense argument, so she got convicted. I think they didn't like seeing the cut with the razor on the girl's back. Sentencing is tomorrow...

UPDATE: She got 15 years to serve 10 years. For a single cut with a razor blade. It didn't help that she ran down the stairs to fight this girl... she was 50 at the time and the victim was 17... and her children and grandchild were present to see her do it.... overall kinda ugly.

It's give your client your belt day!

My coworker was just ordered to give his belt to his client. The judge said, "I don't think your pants will fall down, but his are falling off."

In a cruel twist, his client was thrown out of the courtroom and, subsequently, the courthouse and the belt ended up in the trash can.

Ah, courthouse drama of the pettiest kind!!

I was having a good day when....

Today started of pretty well. A private attorney came to court and relieved me of a case that is on the current trial calendar. Several cases were called in for trial that were not mine, freeing up my weekend. Then a series of events put me in a bad mood.

First, my friend here at the office found out that her very recently ex-fiance got married to a dude. Well, not a dude, a woman who was very recently a dude.

Then I found out that my client who had been out on bond was just arrested for this:
http://www.ajc.com/news/dekalb/autopsy-due-friday-on-140351.html

Then a doctor that I have been trying to subpoena in a very serious case has diappeared and I haven't been able to track him down.

TGIF