Last night in Daphne Municipal Court...

[iamthestranger]

I successfully defended an innocent man on a theft charge.

We didn't even have to put on any of our own witnesses' testimony; the judge granted my motion for judgment of acquital after I cross-examined the city's only witness.

Comments

[ecureuilvolante]

Congratulations!

[iamthestranger]

Thanks!

I'm quite proud of it, even though I remind myself that my client did all the hard work of actually being not guilty, I just managed to not screw that up. ;-)

[abbot_henderson]

That's great and all (huzzah for justice, yaddah yaddah) but when do we start seeing posts that begin: 'I successfully defended a guilty man...'

I'm only halfway kidding.

[iamthestranger]

Yeah, I suppose I should knock it off with the "innocent man" bit otherwise it will be rather conspicuous when I omit it in reference to some other client.

Actually, now that I think about it some more, I might as well include that bit because that's what's significant about it. I successfully defend guilty people all the time, though almost always it's "successfully" in the sense that I obtained a reasonably satisfactory outcome in light of the circumstances. Sometimes negotiating down to 60 days in jail instead of 180 is as successful as it gets.