A Phenomenally Bad Year
Good-bye and good riddance to the Year 2008. This year has been so damn bad, that I came to Florida just to get the year over with an hour earlier. I can remember like it was yesterday when I came into the Office on December 27, 2007 and another prosecutor pointed out to me the online article on Chron.com about Chuck Rosenthal's e-mail scandal, and I felt a feeling of dread over what the New Year would bring. My cousin was in town, visiting from Baltimore, and I tried to explain to him the significance of what was happening. Something inside of me knew that I had a year left at the D.A.'s Office, if that long. Sadly, my worst fears on that day were not only met, but exceeded. The first part of the year was filled with embarrassment after embarrassment as the e-mail scandal went from bad to worse. At one point, as prosecutors, we were even having to ask potential jurors how bad the E-Mail Scandal had affected them and whether or not they could still be fair to the D.A.'s Off