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« Reply #90 on: January 21, 2015, 06:59:29 PM »

I just read why the man shot the doctor in Boston.  It makes the story even more sad and also scary.
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« Reply #91 on: January 21, 2015, 07:07:11 PM »

This is funny there really will be a party :)

If you ONLY knew!
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« Reply #92 on: January 21, 2015, 07:54:38 PM »

And now, I must leave work.  I've been here far too long (it's the end of month invoicing that must be done), and I want to go home.

Until later!
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« Reply #93 on: January 21, 2015, 08:23:36 PM »

Page four?  Is someone trying to gaslight me?
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« Reply #94 on: January 21, 2015, 08:23:49 PM »

Just added a few things to the appendix of the book
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« Reply #95 on: January 21, 2015, 08:24:01 PM »

I also watched a very entertaining motion picture.
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« Reply #96 on: January 21, 2015, 08:50:57 PM »

Hmm, well, It's a little too complicated to just post on here, but my client was accused by the investigator at DOT (our DMV) of having a false social security card that she intended to use to get a duplicate id to give to someone to use to get a job with false documents (Kind of convoluted). They never said who this person was supposed to be.

I'm not going to go into the whole story of how she accidentally took in a fake card with her name on it to DMV, but there was an explanation.   So she spends the interview telling the investigator that if this isn't her real social then her real her real social and license are missing and likely stolen.  He spends the entire interview trying to get her to confess.  They was one sentence in the interview that the state said was an admission, but if you looked at the interview from her perspective, it wasn't at all, it was just a summary of what she was trying to tell him.

Long story short, the agent, who reminded me of the Sacha Baron Cohen as the stationmaster in Hugo (seriously, I almost started laughing) was a jerk  He said he did absolutely nothing to investigate her missing ID.  Go figure. 
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« Reply #97 on: January 21, 2015, 08:53:11 PM »

She cried the whole trial. Literally.  Not sobs, just tears rolling down her cheeks.  See, if we lost, she would be deported and there would be nothing I could do to get her back, and the jury couldn't know that.  She has 4 kids ages 6 and under and her soon to be ex husband hasn't given permission to get passports, so she may not have been able to take her kids with her when she left the country.  While the case was pretty bogus, the stakes were very high.  She did testify and did a good job
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« Reply #98 on: January 21, 2015, 09:01:28 PM »

No, I wasn't fierce in closing.  I really wasn't fierce at all.  I just got in the evidence I need and put it all together in the closing.  I've done over 50 jury trials, not sure exactly how many, but I know it's more than 50.  I've learned that if you can be more of a teacher figure, leading the jury through the evidence and explaining it all, you can lead them into seeing things from your point of view.  I've also learned that you have to be able to make the jurors comfortable with saying not guilty.  I don't rant and rave or needlessly belittle people if I don't have to.  Being able to say someone is mistaken or there just isn't enough evidence is more comfortable for jurors.    I could have said that the agent was a prejudiced SOB, which I believe he is, but I let them make that conclusion for themselves.
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« Reply #99 on: January 21, 2015, 09:16:49 PM »

I don't really even like to post this much about a case, but it's all public record, so it's not a big deal.  I believe her story.  I believe she is trying to be something other than what her parents were.  Her mother kicked her out at age 15 .  She had to figure out how to make her own way.  She's 24. She just graduated from high school in December.  She walked in graduation to be an example for her kids.  She's trying to do things the right way.  She's a good mom and a good person.  I am SO proud of her and was so happy to be able to tell her that and for her to discover what happens when you stand up for yourself.  The tears just poured when she heard the verdict.  The court attendant actually told me to tell her to breathe.   She literally broke down with relief.
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« Reply #100 on: January 21, 2015, 09:27:23 PM »

So that was my last couple of days
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« Reply #101 on: January 21, 2015, 09:32:02 PM »

Thank you for taking care of her, Cillaliz. She was very fortunate to have you on her side.
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« Reply #102 on: January 21, 2015, 09:32:11 PM »

And that's what I do at work
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« Reply #103 on: January 21, 2015, 09:32:46 PM »

Thank you for taking care of her, Cillaliz. She was very fortunate to have you on her side.
Thanks Laura.  She asked me if I have kids today, I told her no, I have my clients :)
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« Reply #104 on: January 21, 2015, 09:35:29 PM »

I sort of adopt people from time to time.  It's the way I choose to do pro bono....
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« Reply #105 on: January 21, 2015, 09:43:32 PM »

Congratulations, Cilla!
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« Reply #106 on: January 21, 2015, 09:44:31 PM »

Although you could have made at least thirty posts out of that story.
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« Reply #107 on: January 21, 2015, 09:46:18 PM »

Vacation vibes to DR Chas and impending vacation vibes to DR Vixmom!
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« Reply #108 on: January 21, 2015, 09:48:08 PM »

Congratulations to BK on finishing his book.
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« Reply #109 on: January 21, 2015, 09:49:21 PM »

Does anyone else watch ARROW besides me?
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« Reply #110 on: January 21, 2015, 09:50:02 PM »

THE FLASH is quickly taking over as my favorite TV show.
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« Reply #111 on: January 21, 2015, 09:53:03 PM »

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« Reply #112 on: January 21, 2015, 09:53:25 PM »

Although you could have made at least thirty posts out of that story.

Yeah, I know
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« Reply #113 on: January 21, 2015, 09:53:36 PM »

T.O.D.


BK, what would you do if you handed over the first third of a new book to Margaret and she hated everything about it?  Would you trash it and start over with a new idea?
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« Reply #114 on: January 21, 2015, 09:53:39 PM »

Vacation vibes to DR Chas and impending vacation vibes to DR Vixmom!

Ditto
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« Reply #115 on: January 21, 2015, 09:54:05 PM »

Congratulations to BK on finishing his book.

DITTO!!!!!
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« Reply #116 on: January 21, 2015, 09:54:23 PM »

Does anyone else watch ARROW besides me?
Never heard of it
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« Reply #117 on: January 21, 2015, 09:54:40 PM »

I guess I could at least get us to page 5
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« Reply #118 on: January 21, 2015, 09:54:51 PM »


Almost there
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« Reply #119 on: January 21, 2015, 09:55:01 PM »

PUSH
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