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Storytime With a Criminal Defense Lawyer

By Eric Lipman

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The practice of criminal law is, on average, more interesting than most civil work. So when I'm cruising around the legal blogosphere, fulfilling my LBW duties, I am often drawn to the musings of fellow bloggers who live and work in the criminal law world. This morning, I happened upon a post by Russ Bensing at The Briefcase. Bensing is a Cleveland lawyer and a pretty prolific writer, posting almost every day. He is not shy about discussing the cases on which he works in some detail. As we've noted here before, whether that's wise is a subject of some debate. In any event, he posted this morning about a suppression motion he took on for a friend and colleague, in what he calls a "major drug case." He tells the tale from beginning to end, painting fairly detailed pictures of the players -- the defendant, the prosecutor, the judge. The theme of his post is that he lost by being a nice guy, agreeing to multiple continuances and such for long enough that his client got arrested again in the interim. This, he suggests, colored the judge's perception of the defendant to the point that, though she had, earlier,...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on November 04, 2010 (boomark / email).