So yesterday I had two different court dockets. I started out with a felony one and ended up finishing out a traffic one. Fun times.
The first case that was noteworthy was a future serial arsonist. This genius figured that a great way to make his ex-girlfriend to pay for breaking up with him was to burn down her house. Then he goes into our jurisdiction and decides to attempt to light his CURRENT (this girl had not broken up with him yet) girlfriend’s car on fire. Needless to say he’s going to prison.
The only other case of interest was a sex offender. This case was actually unusual because the guy was getting sex offender treatment right after this incident occurred. He was also staying in the treatment. It sparked my interest because I have never really had the chance to see how sex offender treatment works. I had the chance in graduate school to take a class on correctional counseling but I was too busy interning and doing my other requirements to take it.
I’m holding out hope though. In law school I can work with the psychiatric institute at (my future law school) when they are doing evaluations on offenders. I might also be able to see the sex offender treatment being done in federal prison system if I can get a SLIP position with the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
Only driving case I saw that was noteworthy was a guy who was putting up a great defense for a $25.00 seatbelt infraction. These kinds of tickets are just civil penalties (they do not go on your driving record). The judge offered him the choice of either paying the fine or having it dismissed by doing 5 hours of community service. The guy still kept pitching a fit.
It was so bad that he accurately had a letter from the DMV about that area being safe (thus I guess you don’t need to have your seatbelt on despite being mandatory for state law). The police officer who wrote the citation just kept looking at me. I smiled and tried not to laugh. The judge was not happy.
The sad thing about it is that this guy put up more of a defense for his seatbelt ticket then the defenses I’ve seen presented in murder trials.
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3 comments:
Hey! I'm really enjoying following your blog... I'm wondering if you can tell me a little bit about how you got where you are professionaly. You went to law school, right? How do you get to be a prosecutor? It's faaaar off, but I'm considering going back to school, maybe for law. Thanks!
I think castration ought to be part of any sex offender therapy. Not the only element of therapy, but a good portion of it at least.
I am about ready to go to law school. Right now I am working in court assisting a bunch of judges.
Professionally I just have my master's right now. I plan on getting my JD and my LLM in Criminal Law.
I stay pretty busy so I apologize for not responding to your post sooner..
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