a public defender

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During my absence last year, I seem to have missed quite a few new blawgs. Here’s one I didn’t know about:

• Frolics and Detours

Here’s a sampling of the latest post:

The judge I am in front of is being a total douche. He knows its my first trial, so I don’t know if he’s being so asinine as a learning tool or just because. I don’t know a lot of stuff that maybe I should, and I definitely am having a hard time articulating my thoughts, but when he cuts me off in the middle of my motion and rules on an issue, I can’t do anything else. At least until he realizes what I was trying to do and admonishes me in front of the court for being unarticulate/unprepared/moronic/a horrible attorney/someone who should just quit law and go into selling my body. Then I just have to suck it up and say “Yes, Your Honor” and wait to get to my office to start sobbing. The thing is, my co-counsel who is a bit more experienced than me is having a hard time with him too. She didn’t know what he was talking about most of the time during his rulings either.Has anyone else had a horrible first trial experience, or is it just me? I knew this would be hard but I didn’t expect for it to be so miserable. Does trial get better or am I just not cut out for this?

That’s one rough judge! I think a fellow pd blawger needs some love