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Last Entry: February 08, 2011 at 23:06:00

Don't Call Me Sugar

Posted on February 08, 2011
A few weeks ago, I got really overwhelmed. I have this case in which my client is facing a lot of prison time, a case that will probably go to trial. The first plea offer I got in the case is about four times more than I've ever had a client get...

Lunch Lady

Posted on January 22, 2011
I usually eat lunch at my desk, but yesterday I grabbed lunch at a place near the courthouse. While I ate, two men sat down at the table next to me. I wasn't trying to listen to their conversation, but, well, our tables were really close together...

One Two Princes Stand Before You

Posted on September 26, 2010
When I was in college, one of my favorite things to do, when I came home to my room drunk, was to blast my stereo (I had a pretty nice stereo) and sing aloud to the radio. I thought I had a really good voice when I was drunk. (It never occurred to me that I had the auditory equivalent of "beer goggles," of course...

Yo-Yo Papa

Posted on August 25, 2010
Something WotL wrote pulled me from my writer's block and reminded me of a story from earlier this summer. I was in the courthouse, late in the day, sitting in the hallway outside of a courtroom, waiting for the prosecutor to come out so we could talk...

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Tin Foil Apartment

Posted on July 18, 2010
I had a client once who lived in a Tin Foil Apartment.The foil, of course, helped to keep the Jews from reading his mind. Or so he told me. I kind of figured that if they had mind reading technology, a thin layer of aluminum foil probably wouldn't matter, but what do I know...

Stop Sign

Posted on June 23, 2010
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...

Cooking with Blonde Justice

Posted on April 30, 2010
A friend of a friend is a lawyer with a cooking blog. I'm jealous. I mean, I can cook a few things, but I'm more of a throw-together-whatever-is-in-the-fridge kind of cook. I can't really see myself writing down the ingredients and typing it up and photographing the results...

How to Prepare for Trial: A Note

Posted on April 21, 2010
(An occasional/sporadic series, with Parts One, Two, Three, and Four.)Here's a tip, it's not really a step. And it's something you already know, but it bears repeating.Start early. Stop procrastinating.Sometimes you'll hear lawyers say, "Well, we'll get through jury selection and opening arguments today, so I'm ready for that, and tonight I can prepare my cross-examinations for the first few witnesses...

The Non-Existent Appeal

Posted on March 31, 2010
I've mentioned it before, but it doesn't hurt to mention it again. I love this new blog Public Defender Revolution. This latest post is basically about how all the trial mistakes and regrets don't matter once you get an acquittal.I tried a case about a year ago where anything and everything that could go wrong did...

Reading Random

Posted on March 28, 2010
Last week, I was sitting in court, waiting for my case to be called, when I happened to watch another case that the judge was handling. From what I could hear from my seat in the audience, the defendant had been arrested for vehicular homicide. It was unclear to me whether he had been intoxicated or otherwise driving recklessly, but he had apparently hit a young woman, and she had died...

Fantasy Living, the update

Posted on March 03, 2010
Guess what. My realtor never wrote back. Guess I'm stuck in my "real life" for the time being. With a bathtub instead of an indoor pool.

Fantasy Living

Posted on February 20, 2010
I have this town, well, city really, that I imagine I'll move to. Maybe everyone does this. But when things get stressful, I like to load up Trulia Real Estate Search and search for the house I'm going to live in, when I move.Maybe it's like when you go on vacation, and of course you think "I could move here...

PD Revolution

Posted on February 16, 2010
Thank you, Sancho, for introducing me to this fantastic (new?) public defender blog:Public Defender Revolution.So good.

Hypothetical No More

Posted on February 12, 2010
Somewhere shortly after, "How do you defend someone if you know that he's guilty?" the conversation with curious friends and strangers sometimes proceeds to, "What if you defended someone, and he got off, and then he killed someone or something? Wouldn't you feel responsible?"Well, there's no more need to hypothesize...

Checking In

Posted on January 31, 2010
I have a little less to say recently. I find that as I handle more serious cases, there is less to joke about. I have this funny case, where my client broke into this guy's house and... See, there's just not that much set up for a joke there...

Hoarders Nightmare

Posted on December 09, 2009
I had a dream, a nightmare really, last night. In the dream, I was going to sleeping in a dorm room. As I fell asleep, I realized that the next morning I was supposed to move out and I hadn't packed yet. So I got up to pack and I realized my dorm room was filled with garbage, like the episode of Hoarders...

Hoarders

Posted on December 06, 2009
Scariest show on TV: Hoarders on A&E. It's like Intervention for Hoarders.It is like a nightmare for me. I just can't imagine anything so terrible. On this one episode, they found two dead cat skeletons under piles of garbage...

Midterm Madness

Posted on November 10, 2009
When I got to my office this morning (early, I might add), I already had two messages from one client who was scheduled for court today. I already had her file on my desk, so I was pretty familiar with it, and I was prepared to see her in court...

TV, my great escape

Posted on November 04, 2009
1. I was thinking of quitting Greek at the end of the season like I quit The Secret Life. I was disappointed when Jordan moved away. What happened there? Rusty & Jordan were so cute together and then she just moves away? But, after last week's episode...

Can You Hear Me Now?

Posted on November 01, 2009
Ok, people who couldn't get Blonde Justice working before... Can you see it now? If so, much thanks for my friend windypundit. If not, well, we're going to have more work to do.

Frustration

Posted on October 18, 2009
Ok, so, Blogger has this whole "new template" thing. I've tried switching to the new template thing, but I think it looks so crowded and ugly, that it makes me not want to use it. So, stick with the old template then, right? But when I do, it can't be viewed in Internet Explorer, apparently...

The Penalty for Blogging

Posted on September 20, 2009
Sometimes people ask me if it would really be that bad if I got outed as Blonde Justice. I don't know, I try to be pretty careful, I don't name names, I change details of stories to protect others' privacy and confidentiality but still convey my experiences...

Alright, It's Over

Posted on September 01, 2009
I've finally made my decision. I'm deleting my Tivo season pass of The Secret Life of the American Teenager.I just can't take it anymore. It almost got saved with that little cameo of the guy from My Boys. But, honestly, it's not even one of my favorite guys from My Boys (Brendo)...

Blonde Justice would like to remind you...

Posted on August 20, 2009
No matter how hot it may be outside, proper courtroom attire requires that you wear a shirt over your bra. Even if it is a really cute pink push-up bra with a big bow on it. And, no, that bow does not count as a "shirt."

That's The Power of...

Posted on August 15, 2009
Here's a new one. I don't know how to break this to you, but... having a signed Power of Attorney does not make you an attorney. For example..."You've done an ok job and all, but you're fired.""Alright. Did you hire a new lawyer? The judge isn't going to let me off the case unless there's another lawyer to take over...

Locked Up Abroad

Posted on August 02, 2009
Yes, I watch a lot of criminal justice themed TV in my "vegging out" downtime on the couch.One of the ones I;m loving right now is Locked Up Abroad on Nat Geo.Here's the premise: Regular Joes (and Josies) , whether American, Canadian, British, whatever, get locked up in other countries...

A Little Update

Posted on July 18, 2009
Here's what's going on:Working hard. Lots of cases. Each more serious than the next. And even when they're not that serious, the prosecutor likes to treat them like they're serious. Which makes my life tougher.I'm trying to take some time off over the summer, enjoy the weather a little bit, take a few days off...

Life Lessons

Posted on June 29, 2009
Important lessons I've learned from The Secret Life of the American Teenager, from ABC Family...1. If you have sex before you get married, your father will die. Immediately. And, moreover, the better the sex, the more tragic and horrible the death will die...

Raising The Bar Returns

Posted on June 08, 2009
Raising The Bar is back tonight. Set your Tivo machine.

Prioritizing Your Trial Preparation

Posted on June 02, 2009
"Listen. I don't care if you want to send me on a wild goose chase, looking for some kind of alibi that doesn't exist. If you want me to go here and there, looking for places that might have you on video, looking for proof that doesn't exist. I don't mind...

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