Frustrated
Why can't they understand that these are misdemeanors -- these are not the crimes of the century. When the charge is simple battery and they offer me a plea to disorderly conduct for an 18 year old client, they aren't offering me a deal at all. This is a person that is just starting into adulthood. What possibly justifies branding her a criminal, for the rest of her life, when the same ends can be accomplished by diversion?
So maybe we lose at trial, but at least we've gone down swinging.
So maybe we lose at trial, but at least we've gone down swinging.
posted by swd at 8:31 PM
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There is always something to be said for going down swinging...
As it turns out, the client was perfectly fine with the offer -- a nolo to disorderly conduct and the 26 week domestic violence class.
Apparently, I cared more than she did.
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