Lawyers, What's Your BEST Career "I WON This Case" Moment?

[@lnsflare1]

"Burger King."

[@lolbittheglitchqueen6871]

24:20 I am an Atheist and I find that psychiatrist acted rudely. I think the solution is to agree to disagree.

[@xlsfd]

Roman Catholic here, and while you can take pretty much everything to an unhealthy point, labeling belief in God itself to be delusional is... problematic, especially in conservative areas.

[@prman9984]

Since when do jurors ask questions in California?

[@joshuaridgway3230]

First story is bull. Jurors do not get to ask questions

[@dmf1301]

I don’t know if the stories are true or not… but I don’t see how a trial process would work if jurors weren’t allowed to ask questions! Lol

[@joshuaridgway3230]

@ And yet it does. Attorneys ask questions, juries listen to the evidence presented and then decide the facts.

[@Prf_X]

Google says "jurors are allowed to ask questions in some jurisdictions, usually by submitting written questions to the judge to be asked of the witness"

[@dmf1301]

@@joshuaridgway3230 Yes... we know how it works. But if any juror (or the group as a whole) had a question about procedures or the rules or wanted to examine a piece of testimony... well, it seems to me that they can't do their job fairly if you just go 'no, you'll have to figure it out for yourself, idiot.' Jurors are ordinary people. They're not lawyers and they don't speak legalese.

[@Ryantiisnllallksksks]

Story 5 is garbage. There was no way that opposing lawyer didn't know about the photos. Which means liar liar nice story, or that attorney didn't brief their client on what evidence existed prior to letting her take the stand. Discovery is a thing.

[@monroerobbins7551]

The first story I think is BS, since the jurors don’t get to ask questions, but something similar happened to a friend’s cousin. The cousin, I’ll just call him Zeke, was apart of a gang when he was younger, a small one, and he had a massive tattoo on his arm to represent it: a skull with thread through the eye sockets, and a sewing needle coming through the mouth (my friend showed me photos, it’s actually a pretty sick tattoo). Years later he was called in as a witness for an unrelated violence case, and the opposing attorney was prepared to rip Zeke apart and make him seem unreliable (when Zeke was literally 10 feet away when the fight started and intervened to de-escalate at the bloody scene, so that’s kinda stupid IMO). Unfortunately, Zeke’s a chill person, and the jabs at his character and trying to undermine his statements weren’t getting to him, so the opposing attorney decided to hit below the belt. The attorney could see the tattoo under Zeke’s shirt, and decided to ask “Mr. Zeke, have you been affiliated with any gangs?”, or something like that (I’m paraphrasing). With a bit more prying, the attorney noted it was because of my friend’s tattoo, and that “I’ve only seen tattoos like that on felons”. Now this was across the country from where Zeke grew up, and the gang had dissolved years ago, so the attorney couldn’t have known that it was a gang tattoo. Zeke didn’t even need to speak, the judge and the other lawyer tore the opposing attorney to shreds because it didn’t matter, and how dare they try to summon sham evidence out of nothing. Zeke, being a smart man, didn’t say a word, and just internally giggled as the attorney got torn a new one. Obviously the prosecution didn’t win out , not because of that alone, but because the prosecution kept trying to pin on other details to make the case seem more serious than it was, and tack on a more serious punishment.

[@monroerobbins7551]

At least that’s how I understand the story. I dunno if my friend’s lying to me about it, but the tattoo was real at least, and it was dope AF.

[@BuzryHaproMandalorianHunter]

What’s the game being played?