Not Guilty

From public defender intern blogger Petition for Review:

of one charge, guilty of the other. So I’m claiming a victory. A very sweet victory considering that the defendant blatantly lied on the stand, told a bullshit story (which amounted to “the cop is lying”), constantly wrote me notes during trial says “That a lie” “He’s a liar” ect. large enough that I’m pretty sure the jury could see, visible reacted to the police officers testimony constantly and was just a general pain the ass. He got sentenced to the amount of time he has already served and the mandatory minimum fine. He’s going to appeal, he’s going to lose and the court is going to impose costs on him.

My voir dire was pretty bad, my opening was ok, my cross of the police officer was pretty good, my direct sucked (not my fault my client was a moron) and I think my closing was pretty solid. I learned that I’m not very good at voir dire, cross comes naturally to me and jurors who give me the evil eye during closing worry me. Yeah I’m talking about your juror #3 I should have used a peremptory on you.

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