Friday, December 22, 2017

Happy Festivus...

... for the rest of us.

Some airing of grievances:

1) Judges who don't vary down from the guidelines for first-time non-violent offenders.

2) Prosecutors who don't have open file discovery.

3) Defense lawyers who don't share what their cooperating clients are going to say.

4) The sentencing guidelines.

5) The few remaining judges who don't order early exhibit lists and pre-trial Jencks.

6) The good-faith exception to the 4th Amendment.

7) "Harmless error."

8) "PCA"

9) Arresting someone without giving them the opportunity to surrender.

10) Min-mans

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

11) Title 46 cases

Anonymous said...

12) Probation officers who try to practice law

Anonymous said...

13) Defense lawyers who only have the "blame the co-defendant" trial strategy

Anonymous said...

15) celebrating Festivus a day early (not really, but George's dad would approve of this grievance).

Anonymous said...

I assume you're referring to the defense providing exhibit (and witness) list prior to trial ...

And man-mins (not min-mans) ...