Some fun events from my day in court
1. A client is charged with violation of the state’s sexual offender registry and public indecency for exposing himself in Wal-Mart to women and masturbating. Albeit a weirdo, but nothing too unusual until I find out that my client chooses his victims based on what the demons tell him,
2. A client is charged with taking his ex-girlfriend’s bank card, goes to the store, buys $1.28 worth of stuff, and signs her name to the receipt. This constitutes two felonies here in the State of Georgia. I had the judge agree to treating them for misdemeanors if the client did two months in the county jail, and take a day long tour of a state prison facility. Client rejected the plea offer. Client claims that his ex is mad at him for cheating on her and is out for blood. Okay, a workable a defense, in addition to the fact this is over A DOLLAR AND TWENTY-EIGHT CENTS! By the time, the client tells me this, the judge has taken his lunch recess and I told the client to be back at 1:30 pm. Well, he comes back, but I learn from the prosecutor that my client had contacted his ex and was offering her $100 not to testify. I read the riot act, at my client, and the profanity laced version mind you. His story, I called her to ask her not to testify because I want to go into the Army. Great, with little shits like this guarding our country, I feel so much safer.
3. I won my motion to suppress motion on an armed robbery case. A minor victory considering that the client confessed, his girlfriend sold him out, his car was found at the scene, et cetera, et cetera, etc.
4. On the same armed robbery client, we got the judge to approve a sentence of 25 years to serve 17.5 years. Mind you, the standard recommendation for an armed robbery in my neck of the woods is 25 years to serve 20. Again, a minor victory. However, client does not want to plea. He wants a trial because he wants to go out like a man. Wonderful. If my client is convicted of armed robbery, he faces a life sentence, and he will have to serve 30 years of it, before he is eligible for parole. It is not for us to ask how or why; it is simply for us to do and die.
