![]() It doesn’t happen often, but occasionally the cops do fuck up. BUT was the temperature of the liquid simulator solution utilized as the external standard for the breath sample machine measured by a thermometer which was properly certified by the state at the time ? Hmmm? And we literally used a checklist for DUI cases - six pages of potential rakes we could only pray a cop stepped on: Yes, yes, you have video of the guy swerving all over the road, his speech is as slurred as mud, and he has a small cargo ship’s worth of empty beer bottles in the back. I’m there to sit at the assembly line with a checklist on a clipboard and make sure that my client’s rights are not violated too much throughout the process. I’m not a special agent who parachutes into the enemy hideout to orchestrate and negotiate an elaborate hostage release I’m just the widget inspector. Ninety-four percent of state cases and 97% of federal cases are resolved by a plea deal, to be exact.Īll this means I inhabit a different role than you may think based on TV shows or the occasional op-ed about the noble role of public defenders. ![]() This is one reason why almost everyone chooses to plead guilty. I try to shift delicately into the gentle social worker persona and talk about damage control, which invariably means telling them that accepting a plea deal is the least bad option. So yeah, when I meet with clients I shrug a lot and give the “what-do-you-want-me-to-do?” look. My client hadn’t gotten far from the scene: He was in the driver’s seat, having already passed out and pissed his pants. Cops found his car billowing thick, black smoke in a parking lot in front of a nearby AutoZone. I saw the picture of the imprint, with a mirrored alphanumeric sequence perfectly legible on the metal body. The fleeing was ineffectual, if only for the fact that he literally imprinted his license plate number onto the other carġ. 6, he was charged with fleeing the scene after crashing into another car. He had been prohibited from driving eons ago, but that hadn’t stopped him before. ![]() This usually doesn’t work.įor example, one time a client was picked up for his sixth drunk-driving incident. Yet I am duty-bound to poke, prod, and bluff my way into exaggerating a weakness with the government’s case. And usually the evidence against them is overwhelming - not even a close call. There’s a dull reality to my job, which is that my clients have almost always done the thing they’re accused of doing. I am the corporeal manifestation of professional burnout. ![]() I am venerated by the new progressive zeitgeist. ![]()
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