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Justice Thieves

By "Ipse Dixit"

This is a post I started writing a couple of weeks ago. Whoops! Let me preface it by saying that my courtroom is pretty much where justice comes to die...My trial for today got continued over my objection. I announced ready. People said not ready. No dismissal. Huh? Confused are you? Well, read on.This was a case from 2006. I was not the attorney on the case back then. My client bench warranted at trial almost a year ago and got picked up again about a month ago on the warrant, then I got the case as a bench warrant pick-up. In the original time period my client waived her right to a speedy trial on 2 occasions and entered into a stipulation that if on the last day the People were not ready to proceed she would agree to give them a reasonable period of time to get ready (a so-called "reasonable people's continuance")...continue to full post

Full post as published by Ipse Dixit on December 25, 2007 (boomark / email).