Trophy of Perpetual Futility
This, my friends, must be origin, cause, and prize for some sort of public defender contest. Perhaps it should be the new award for the overall best blog in the Rodneys. Perhaps it should be for some monumental feat and contest yet to be devised. Example: Public defender w/the most repeat customers in a year wins the trophy! I just had a great one: Guy gets felony DUI (or for some of you crazies out there, DWI – drunk driving, ok?). We move to suppress for lack of good reason to stop. (MT calls the level of evidence needed to make a traffic stop legal “particularized suspicion” — probable cause was just far too high a standard for the law and order folk in the wild wild west!) State concedes on the motion; stop was stinky, case dismissed! Not two weeks later, same dude is back in jail on a new felony domestic assault charge. I didn’t know whether to scream with rage or cry with sadness, so I did neither and instead just went about my business. That’s what we do. As one of my colleagues says constantly, “The hard work of freedom is never done!” That’s why we need a trophy!
Alrighty then. I’m thinking about it, so you should, too. Let me know if you come up w/anything. I just want a chance to win this or give it to someone.
Yes, I know I need therapy.
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