'I represented a guy that stole three trucks from his work. Only two were recovered before trial. He showed up to a motion hearing in the third one.'
"This was a case another prosecutor in my office had a few years back.A 30-year-old defendant was charged with sexual assault of a child after he got his girlfriend’s 14-year-old sister pregnant. She actually kept the baby so the police just waited and got a paternity test. No surprise, defendant was the father."
Defendant took the stand. His version of events was that he snuck into victim’s room at night, covered her mouth, and held her down while he forcibly had sex with her against her will. It seemed like his own lawyer had no idea that’s the story he settled on. "She had instructed him to shut up and let her do the talking during the trial, as from experience the client sometimes does not know how to answer a question properly. So she pleads and can show that the court has nothing on her client; she feels that for once, a pro bono case is going her way.