It is a cold chilly night in DC with another ice storm on the way. Most of us are hunkered down preparing for tomorrow and the rest of our week, while others are hoping that cold freezing rain can put off the inevitable. For the Defendant he plans to blame the weather as to why he cannot make it to Court. Although if there was a party or one of his potential baby mammas' he would make sure to be there without a problem. For the defense attorney he just plans to feed yet another bologna sandwich to the court and to the government as to why they should have yet another date. Of course, this is not a reasonable date and as simple as it should be. It could be simply continued to the next day. But, in the world of bologna sandwiches it needs to be set eight weeks out so that it hits dead in the center of spring break, or dead in the center of my plans for attending Spring Training.
Eventually you get to the point that you just cave and let the scheduling happen, afterall it is the Court's calendar that is important, not mine. You know that it will be scheduled again anyway. I am sure that in the next eight weeks the Defendant will have caught another charge or upped the ante. It is likely that he will have caught a bigger charge quite possibly even one where his defense attorney will be conflicted out of the matter entirely putting us back to the start of him having the right to counsel and having yet another new court appointed attorney assigned to him -- compliments of our tax dollars. This does not bother him, since he is definitely getting our money's worth since he does not pay taxes nor contribute anything productive to a good and just society. What ills me is that he and his friends will play the system and want their voucher cash for being subpoenaed to testify. I question the validity in what anyone says when they are more interested in collecting their $40 for their voucher rather than doing the right thing. Did I fail to mention the lack of presentable attire, or the vast difference between what most of us feel is appropriate for court?
Anticipating that eight weeks from now the trial will still not happen, I do anticipate that the Defendant will have plenty of time to run to Norf 'Lina. After all, when you don't have to be responsible and pay for your own attorney, food or housing, you have plenty of time to cruise down the highway and show off your new rims while vacationing and visiting your made up cousins and relatives.
For me this is not the case. I have a very busy day tomorrow. I have to be at DOJ early in the morning and will be wearing what I consider appropriate clothing. They are warm and simple and they do not advertise for anyone. I take it as the greatest compliment when a defendant tells me they don't like my clothes. I fear the day they like my clothes only slightly less than I fear the day that other people in the courthouse look like one particular defense attorney that at first glance I thought was a cross-dressing prostitute defendant.
I will get up at 6 a.m. and prepare for a full day and come rain or shine, sleet or snow; this Midwesterner by origin will weather the storm and be there on time. Yes for work, but now possibly even for the greater joy of your entertainment living vicariously through the life of me.
