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A miracle worker?

Unfortunately, I'm not. Unlike what most of my clients think.They bad-mouth the public defender, calls us public "pretenders." Public "offenders." Mostly because we can't get their case dismissed and have the prosecutor and the judge give them a public apology. "If you were a REAL lawyer, I wouldn't be here."NO.If you didn't have 50 grams of meth in your house, and give the cops permission to search, your case might be dismissed.If you didn't give the police a taped statement about the multiple times that you have had sex with your underage girlfriend, your case might get dismissed.If you didn't blow a .249 after the police found your car up against a building and you passed out behind the wheel, your case might get dismissed.If you didn't call your wife from the phone at the jail, with the sign below it that says "This line is monitored and recorded," asking her to tell the police that she lied and that you didn't hit her, your case might get dismissed...continue to full post

Full post as published by Existing as a Public Defender on March 20, 2007 (boomark / email).