Why I drink-last post 75

You are a good man sir, I would be proud to buy you a drink or five if given the chance.
 
Why I drink-Trial update post 42

CAJUNLAWYER said:
The DA trotted out 18 8x10 glossy color pictures with measuring sticks in them (thin Alices Resturant :D) .
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"What'd you get?"
"I didn't get nothin'. I had to pay $50 and pick up the trash."
"What were you arrested for?"
"Littering."
And they all moved away from me on the bench.
 
DCWilson said:
Caj, after Charlie Sherrill writes his memoirs and sells them to Hollywood for megabucks, you need to write yours and follow suit. I'll buy both books and go see the movies, too.
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I've got this horrible image in my head of Alec Baldwin playing Caj in the movie.
 
Cajun, Don't leave us hangin. What was the outcome? Inquiring minds want to know. I bet he walked...until the next crime.
 
Mule Packer said:
Oh swell. Another good productive citizen set free. :mad:
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Not so fast big guy. The late money is coming in and it's looking like 3-2 leaning towards conviction. The DA got his licks in this afternoon ;).

Anyway-it really is about winning, but not in the sense that winning =not guilty. Sometimes a win is just getting through a trial without looking like a total boob, sometimes a win is keeping the jury out for two or three hours on what everyone thought was a slam dunk 5 minute GAC (guilty as charged)winner for the DA. As long as I can say that I prepared my guts out, and gave it my best-I'm happy. I've only had a handfull that I was really distressed over loosing and two of those got reversed on appeal. By and large the guilty get convicted and the innocent get acquitted in spite of the efforts of the lawyers. For every Caycee Antony there are tens of thousands of trials that go the way people think they should.. If this guy gets whacked after the effort I've put forth, I've done my job. He will have gotten a fair trial and that's all one can ask for. You play the hand you're dealt as a trial lawyer. Sometimes you win-sometimes you loose. But I can promise you all this, from the bottom of my heart, with every bone in my body, with every sense of my being that no matter what happens tomorrow-I'm working on my boat tomorrow night :D
 
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Hell, I was there......As Witnessed In Court,



.
Defendant: I guess....I'm guilty thar Judge

Judge: The Court accepts your guilty plea, and you are here by
ordered to pay a fine of One Hundred Dollars and court costs.

Defendant: Hell Judge, I've got that on my hip!

Judge: Well, while your at it....See if you can't find 30 days on 'your hip' for contempt of court.

Bailiff, take Mr. Jones into custody.



.

I'm taking the 5th
 
You cant help much if you aint got nothing to work with. I remember a old cartoon, it showed a lawyer shooting it out with the judge and baliff while he has his other arm hanging on to his client trying to get out of there. Someone in court is saying, now theres a lawyer who believes in his client!
 
mjr said:
I've got this horrible image in my head of Alec Baldwin playing Caj in the movie.
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No, they can get anybody to play Caj and put a green sphere over his head while he says his lines. Then they will put a CGI John Belushi on the green blob in post production. Voilà! Our Caj! (Caj, de accent grave dere, dat for you noble mon, it.)

I don't know who should play Charlie. Maybe somebody whose every glance reveals a resigned cynicism about the way of the world? How about Tommie Lee Jones?
 
keith44spl said:
Play Caj? That's a tough cast, right thar


Now Charlie....Maybe Rodger Boyce or Wilford Brimley... mabee

One Day Closer
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I had that Wilford Brimley thought too, but never having actually met Charlie and knowing him only through his stories, I didn't know if his friends would think I was being fanciful or just stupid. So I chickened out and went with what I thought was a safe suggestion.
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All I can say from being here at this place "You just cannot make up stuff like this. I sat once in a NY courtroom about a breaking and entering and stealing. One of the questions directed to the arresting police officer went like this. Officer how did you detirmine this man was stealing? Answer Found a pillow case full of jelwrey, cameras, and some other items. The owner of the items identified them as belonging to him. Then they asked the defendant what he was doing in the apartment. I got lost and was looking for directions. Judge with a pillowcase of stolen items? Defendent I didn't know how they got there. jusr goes into the jury room and about 15 minutes advised the baliff that they had reached a verdict. Verdict was guilty. They must have had every court officer in that courtroom.
Frank
 
You might try closing with some irony...like, "There are kids out there right now taking gun shaped toaster pastries to school, and the state is busy trying to put my innocent client in jail"
 
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