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Taking On Corrections: "They Just Think The Law Stops At Their Door"

By Brian Tannebaum, Esq.

The most important rule of practicing criminal law, a rule never taught in Criminal Procedure in law school, is to be nice to court staff.Clerks that don't like you can conveniently forget to bring your client's file, the bailiff who thinks you're a jerk can decline to give the judge a message for you that you have to go and want to be called first, and corrections can, "oh sorry," not bring your client to court because he "didn't make the list."In recent years, and understandably so, security has become tighter in courtrooms. A hug between family members and a defendant, passing discovery, talking to the client in custody in court, is now often a major issue, or denied. Judges have completely abdicated their right to run their courtroom to corrections, and corrections knows this...continue to full post

Full post as published by Criminal Defense on February 11, 2009 (boomark / email).