Well, at least we weren’t picking a jury that day. July 8, 2007
Posted by Idta in : Criminal Law, Law Enforcement , trackback
Last Friday, I got up early and left the office at 6:00 a.m. I drove to a county two hours away for a client’s arraignment at 8:30. I brought a colleague and our summer intern, too.
The prosecutor also drove about 100 miles to be there. She has a lot of experience as a prosecutor, but this was the first time for all of us to appear in this particular court.
The prosecutors arrange with the prison to bring inmates to court. Instead of escorting him to the court where he was to be arraigned, someone at the prison decided to take the client to a different court, also several hours away, but in the wrong direction. We don’t know why.
Nobody was happy to have wasted all that time, and the judge was not pleased.
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