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Stop Sign

One time, when I was in college, I was driving a friend in my car.  When I stopped at a stop sign, she said, "You stopped?   You didn't have to.  The ones with the white borders are optional."I thought about it for a second. Could she be right? Were there other kinds of stop signs? Wouldn't an optional stop sign be a yield sign?I quickly figured out that she was kidding. Here's my problem.  My client actually believes it.  Well, not about the stop sign, but about whatever ridiculousness they're telling him in the jail law library.  And it is ridiculous.I've tried to tell my client how ridiculous it is.  But, the thing is, he likes what he hears from them better than what he hears from me.  They tell him "Look here, here where the cop wrote 3rd Steret?  That means they have to throw this case out...continue to full post

Full post as published by Blonde Justice on June 23, 2010 (boomark / email).