Sean of the Thread
06-23-2008, 04:46 PM
Now you all know how apprehensive and worried about going the PD route in my situation....
Finally four hours before my pre trial my PD called me and spoke to me for the first time in two months and had me pretty worried. He was very loose and used the word dude at least twice that I remember in our conversation.
Anyways at my pre trial he handled himself superbly.
First off the judge was a very fair and nice guy watching everyone else go thru their shit. Now this is where I get worried.
One DUI case where a guy blew a .16 he amended it to just a careless driving ticket. .... a non criminal... traffic ticket worth $123.... fucking break of that guys life time. Judge was definitely in a great mood.
So it's my turn and they call me up. I'm the best dressed individual in the room mind you and the Judge actually spoke to me unlike the others. Grabs my file and the next words out of his mouth were "I'm willing to finish business on this very very reasonably if you're willing"
Without hesitation my PD says NO we want to reset another for pretrial... your honor it's been TWO MONTHS and the state has not fulfilled discovery at which point the judge got pissed at the prosecutor. This after watching him drop a DUI to a careless fucking driving traffic ticket in under 3 minutes of discussion..
I was like WTF.
The state is obviously fucked up on my case and they're holding back. The only thing they've given to my PD was the CBT center video/audio where I refused the breath test of which it conveniently did not record my 15 minute argument about wanting to invoke my right to a blood test instead. Completely un recorded somehow. I can't wait to see the video.
So still they have no evidence other than my admission of drinking four beers over the course of 5 hours post miranda.
As busy and overworked as these PD's are I'm shocked that he wants to pursue this so far when I may have had a huge break today so in a way I feel much better. He's getting toxicologists and all kinds of shit and threatened the prosecutor with a motion to compel and the judge told them to get their shit together if they got a case on me.
Anyways... these guys work hard and I have much more respect for them now. The hired attorneys there were agressive and loud. The judge was short and stern with them in return unlike my PD. He even took away PD services from some stupid asses in respect to the PD's time and right to have a life not to mention tax payers money.
My judge is awesome and I hope he's in as good as mood as he was today next month at my new pre trial.
I've got a story about one of the cases before him today but I'll save it for another thread since this must be a wall of text by now but for fucks sake was this girl stupid as hell.
*OH... and I think the state prosecutor is a highschool and baseball teammate.. isn't there something wrong with that?
Finally four hours before my pre trial my PD called me and spoke to me for the first time in two months and had me pretty worried. He was very loose and used the word dude at least twice that I remember in our conversation.
Anyways at my pre trial he handled himself superbly.
First off the judge was a very fair and nice guy watching everyone else go thru their shit. Now this is where I get worried.
One DUI case where a guy blew a .16 he amended it to just a careless driving ticket. .... a non criminal... traffic ticket worth $123.... fucking break of that guys life time. Judge was definitely in a great mood.
So it's my turn and they call me up. I'm the best dressed individual in the room mind you and the Judge actually spoke to me unlike the others. Grabs my file and the next words out of his mouth were "I'm willing to finish business on this very very reasonably if you're willing"
Without hesitation my PD says NO we want to reset another for pretrial... your honor it's been TWO MONTHS and the state has not fulfilled discovery at which point the judge got pissed at the prosecutor. This after watching him drop a DUI to a careless fucking driving traffic ticket in under 3 minutes of discussion..
I was like WTF.
The state is obviously fucked up on my case and they're holding back. The only thing they've given to my PD was the CBT center video/audio where I refused the breath test of which it conveniently did not record my 15 minute argument about wanting to invoke my right to a blood test instead. Completely un recorded somehow. I can't wait to see the video.
So still they have no evidence other than my admission of drinking four beers over the course of 5 hours post miranda.
As busy and overworked as these PD's are I'm shocked that he wants to pursue this so far when I may have had a huge break today so in a way I feel much better. He's getting toxicologists and all kinds of shit and threatened the prosecutor with a motion to compel and the judge told them to get their shit together if they got a case on me.
Anyways... these guys work hard and I have much more respect for them now. The hired attorneys there were agressive and loud. The judge was short and stern with them in return unlike my PD. He even took away PD services from some stupid asses in respect to the PD's time and right to have a life not to mention tax payers money.
My judge is awesome and I hope he's in as good as mood as he was today next month at my new pre trial.
I've got a story about one of the cases before him today but I'll save it for another thread since this must be a wall of text by now but for fucks sake was this girl stupid as hell.
*OH... and I think the state prosecutor is a highschool and baseball teammate.. isn't there something wrong with that?