Of Offers, Acceptance and Personal Animosity
For the most part, I typically don't write about the day-to-day run-ins that I have with prosecutors. Disagreements with the State are par for the course in an adversarial system and most of them don't merit a blog post. As a general rule, I don't write about the particulars of my cases, and I don't write about the particulars of the fights I get in. However, sometimes there are exceptions to that rule. A few weeks ago, I was handling the case of a friend of a friend of mine in a misdemeanor court. He had been charged with an assault case and a criminal mischief stemming from the same incident. At trial, he had been acquitted of the assault, but convicted of the criminal mischief and placed on probation. By September, a Motion to Revoke had been filed on his probation and I went to court with him. The Motion to Revoke was based largely on delinquent fines and fees, but I knew that a failure to attend anger management allegation was probably not going