2 posts tagged “attorney”
imagine you are a poor kid who has to use a public defender cause you can't afford an attorney. imagine you are accused of a crime that would result in you being a felon and having to register as a sex offender for the rest of you life. you are only 21 years old. you know you are innocent (and so does your lawyer), but you also know (and so does your lawyer) that you can't incontrovertably prove your innocence. your attorney has explained the inherent risks of trial.
the DA offers you a misdemeanor, and your record can be sealed in 5 years if you stay out of trouble. do you plead no contest even though you know you didn't do it? or do you fight as hard as you can? is it worth the risk?
i know when i was that age what my answer would have been, but i'm curious about the cost benefit analysis that people work through as they consider stuff like this. what do y'all think? it's a somewhat useless exercise, in the sense that you can't really know what you would do without the full coercive weight of the state and their "evidence" pressing down on you.
so don't ask me how, but we ended up with a white 2007 mustang convertible to tool around vegas in this week. i have to say, although this is not the car i ever would have chosen for myself in a million years, i kinda dig it. make fun of me if you will, but MAN that thing goes, you even think about putting a whisper's pressure on that damn gas pedal and it's all "VROOMdiggityjumprahhhhhr." i've squealed those tires countless times in the two days we've had it, and i don't even have a small penis for which to be compensating.
and when you're flying up the strip in that smokin hot american muscle and "sweet home alabama" comes on the radio well...let's just say whichever van zant brother it is who commands you to "turn it up," right there at the beginning, i gladly complied. i was hunter s. thompson's faithful attorney, advising him to take half a blue valium, put the top down, and floor it. the skynyrd was followed closely by "born to be wild" and then "little pink houses" and i felt like i was hard charging, gunning for the american dream with all i had. somebody send some golf shoes or i may never make it out of here.
