Work-Related Rant

A client of mine just left me a message wanting to withdraw his plea from a recent calendar call. Client was charged with Aggravated Assault, False Imprisonment, and a few other misdemeanors. The case was not the greatest. Client had a BAC of .2873, and did not remember much of the encounter but was sure that the victim had attacked him, and not vice versa. However, most of the evidence supports the victim’s account of what transpired. The original offer was 20 years with the first 8 to serve and a lot of special conditions of probation associated with domestic violence cases. I got the client’s medical records that casted doubt on the client’s ability to do what the State claimed, and help confirm in some small aspects the client’s account. At Calendar Call, the State offered to dismissed the Aggravated Assault charge, to recommend that my client get ten years on probation with all those special conditions, including intensive probation supervision for six months, and have him treated as a first offender (to keep the felony off his record). I explained the offer to my client and answered his questions. My client took the offer, but now, he is complaining that it is too onerous, I sold him out, and that I did not do anything for him.

Sorry to those true believers out there, but what the fuck? Where does this sorry bastard get off to complain? I saved his sorry ass from prison, and got a majority of what he wanted from the State. I sold him out? I did nothing for him? Yeah, right.