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Five Days

Five days. That's how long a recent client took to get picked up for the same offense as the one to which I pled him. In the grand scheme of things, it was a piddly case, and the DA wanted to get rid of the case, too, so we were able to make everyone happy. Unfortunately, the DA got his butt chewed for giving my guy the deal he got. Luckily, he's got prior military service, so he won't be scarred by this butt-chewing, and won't be as shy with pleas in the future as he would be if he hadn't already been yelled at by the best (Well, second-best; he was Army)It's frustrating that my future clients are going to have their option list shortened by what a past client has done. He'll get his payback; he signed on to longer probation than he would have done in prison, so now he'll have longer prison time from messing up...continue to full post

Full post as published by Gideon’s Guardians on June 05, 2007 (boomark / email).