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Your red Swingline stapler will be taken away.

It’s not a threat, it’s a misfortune cookie. Scary, isn’t it?

Here’s my favorite:

You have great insights about matters of little consequence.

So true.

I’ve spent much of the last three weeks writing motions about the right to a speedy trial, the State’s duty to prosecute its cases diligently (pre-indictment delay), and constitutionally infirm DUI convictions. In other words, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about how incompetent prosecutors can be. That incompetence often means our clients languish in jail too long, but it also sometimes means our clients eventually get released w/out a conviction b/c the cases get dismissed. I think another misfortune cookie is apropos:

Someday this will all seem funny. Oh, not to you. Did you think we meant to you?

I wonder how that would go over at the jail….

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"We, as criminal defense lawyers, are forced to deal with some of the lowest people on earth, people who have no sense of right and wrong, people will lie in court to get what they want, people who do not care who gets hurt in the process. It is our job — our sworn duty — as criminal defense lawyers, to protect our clients from those people." [src]
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