Comments on: My truth is no better than your truth http://apublicdefender.com/2007/10/28/my-truth-is-no-better-than-your-truth/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:53:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Gideon http://apublicdefender.com/2007/10/28/my-truth-is-no-better-than-your-truth/comment-page-1/#comment-7416 Gideon Mon, 29 Oct 2007 22:32:13 +0000 http://apublicdefender.com/2007/10/28/my-truth-is-no-better-than-your-truth/#comment-7416 [quote comment="7404"]Perhaps your best post ever. Telling the story is as important in sentencing after a plea as it is at a trial. Friday, one of our lawyers got probation in a case where the ADA was asking for seven to twelve...in large part, because he knew the facts, he knew his client, he had worked hard on how to explain his client to the judge.[/quote] Thanks. That's a very good point. When you have a sentence that calls for a right to argue, you have to put on the best mitigation case possible. Knowing the client and the client's story is a huge part of that. [quote comment="7404"]Perhaps your best post ever. Telling the story is as important in sentencing after a plea as it is at a trial. Friday, one of our lawyers got probation in a case where the ADA was asking for seven to twelve…in large part, because he knew the facts, he knew his client, he had worked hard on how to explain his client to the judge.[/quote]
Thanks.

That’s a very good point. When you have a sentence that calls for a right to argue, you have to put on the best mitigation case possible. Knowing the client and the client’s story is a huge part of that.

]]> By: Woman in Black http://apublicdefender.com/2007/10/28/my-truth-is-no-better-than-your-truth/comment-page-1/#comment-7404 Woman in Black Mon, 29 Oct 2007 14:30:19 +0000 http://apublicdefender.com/2007/10/28/my-truth-is-no-better-than-your-truth/#comment-7404 Perhaps your best post ever. Telling the story is as important in sentencing after a plea as it is at a trial. Friday, one of our lawyers got probation in a case where the ADA was asking for seven to twelve...in large part, because he knew the facts, he knew his client, he had worked hard on how to explain his client to the judge. Perhaps your best post ever. Telling the story is as important in sentencing after a plea as it is at a trial. Friday, one of our lawyers got probation in a case where the ADA was asking for seven to twelve…in large part, because he knew the facts, he knew his client, he had worked hard on how to explain his client to the judge.

]]> By: Sean O'Brien http://apublicdefender.com/2007/10/28/my-truth-is-no-better-than-your-truth/comment-page-1/#comment-7367 Sean O'Brien Sun, 28 Oct 2007 17:21:08 +0000 http://apublicdefender.com/2007/10/28/my-truth-is-no-better-than-your-truth/#comment-7367 That movie was one of the most ridiculous I have seen. The idea that a Southern town would go bananas over anyone (black or white) who raped his daughter is simply preposterous. As for client's stories, it never ceases to amaze what a defense attorney will serve up to a jury. In Michigan, a defense attorney put a defendant's story that he broke into a college girl's dorm room, found her dead and naked, and masturbated on her. Yeah right. Of course, most defense attorneys see nothing wrong with putting on such obvious perjury. That movie was one of the most ridiculous I have seen. The idea that a Southern town would go bananas over anyone (black or white) who raped his daughter is simply preposterous.

As for client’s stories, it never ceases to amaze what a defense attorney will serve up to a jury. In Michigan, a defense attorney put a defendant’s story that he broke into a college girl’s dorm room, found her dead and naked, and masturbated on her. Yeah right. Of course, most defense attorneys see nothing wrong with putting on such obvious perjury.

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