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When you make a plea offer to the baby-DA... and they turn down your offer with an email citing the "violent" facts of the case and the danger your client poses to the community... and then the baby-DA ends the email with an offer better for your client then the one turned down.

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When a former DA joins the PD’s office and then gets a murder discharged at prelim

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When the court is short on attorneys and the judge asks if you can take a few cases

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When you win a trial that you thought you’d lose

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When the victim of a robbery / attempted murder is asked to identity the person who assaulted him and he points to a juror and says, "That guy looks like him." (True story.)

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Anonymous asked: tfw the sentencing guidelines recommend probation for your 19-year-old offender with no history, but the judge gives him 10 years in prison.

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When the prosecutor emails your supervisor to complain about you for calling the prosecutor out on her racist charging decisions.

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Anonymous asked: When your client calls from prison, upset at you that you haven't answered his letter... the letter he sent to the court clerk instead of you, who then sent copies to the judge and the DA.

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I hope you are still around and fighting! When the judges try to keep the courtroom "covid safe" by calling in defendants one at a time, but they are all crowded outside in a tiny courthouse hallway.

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When my client is frustrated because nothing is happening on his case

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Anonymous Asked: When you appeal a dog of a case, but the day before oral arguments the court of appeals releases an opinion that mirrors the argument you completely invented in your brief

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When you get the medical records you had to demand for in discovery and learn that the ‘victim’ had three times the clinical dose of meth in his system in your already good self-defense case.

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When your wife, a life long PD, wins an appeal and is published! I love my wife!

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When you have been saying FTP for years and now finally everyone gets it

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When a client asks me how long it will be until he has a trial

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When my client asks me when his trial will happen

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When you win a motion for release while working from home

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