Or they could just use DUCT TAPE -- I am just sayin'
OMG, I spit my juice all over my file! Duct tape to hold the mute button down....that was priceless. Jose just may think doing something like that illustrates how truly common duct tape is, he carries some in his brief case, in the spirit of McGyver for any unforseen would be emergencies.:floorlaugh:
The odd, truly odd thing to me is that after 39 years of practicing law, Mason still doesn't get the idea that the client will be treated as any other prisoner, and he too will be treated as any other lawyer. If defense lawyers sit at that table and use the mute button, five different cases ( at least ) being heard a day, five days a week, and they manage....why on earth would the court have to switch it out for his highness. It is a level of arrogance that is tough to measure.
Until the judge walks in the courtroom, one has the option of standing to the side and talking to your fellow lawyers. One doesn't sit down in front of a hot mic, disparage others and then whine that the mic was on. That is disingenuous at best. The obvious solution if you fear the entire courtroom is live and hot, is to do what business folks do all the time, get up an hour earlier, meet for coffee, go over everything, THEN go on to the meeting where others will be. Sometimes I do that, be AT breakfast at seven am just to be sure everyone is on the same page, once you get somewhere then the greetings etc are just that, and nothing you would regret being overheard is even coming out of your mouth. One does not work in any profession for 39 years and not understand the talk you are given as a toddler about your church voice or library voice, a time and place for silence. Come on.
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Richard Hornsby and Bill Sheaffer agree on one thing in this matter.....you can chalk all of this up to one simple thing. Ego. Coming from the man who told a reporter she is too stupid...it is beyond obvious he sees himself as worlds apart from others. Any man that would speak to a woman like that, I do not like, trust or respect. I'll be interested to see how he condescends to the jury and how they react to that. These hardworking, taxpayers on the jury who will be removed from their homes and families for months on end may be wholly offended by him and that hurts one person, his client. The same goes for Jose.
Unlike the way she was very adamant to point out she had joined the team for the very limited role for if, as and when we get to the penalty stage, Ann Finnell started signing these recent motions. Much like the way she chimbed in , in open court, with a suggestion of how and where Cheney could get depos transcribed, I think she has become aware how far off in the ditch this defense team really is, and she was compelled to try to start helping them. They need all the help they can get. Many of these motions are simply recycled Andrea motions from earlier. The truth of the matter is until Andrea joined the team, Baez was not filing motions, or doing depos, or anything much that I could see. Even with Andrea's years of experience, the motions were cut and pasted , and often times whole sentences referred to other cases, etc.
Don't they proofread at all? I wouldn't have even dared to hand in a essay with cut and pasted information on it, in high school.
It is sad, tired and pitiful, that after two years of the defense motions,
the State mopping the floor with them,
always wrong on the facts, wrong on the law,
procedurally and substantively incorrect,
replete with errors from top to bottom,
insufficient as a matter of law,
filled with opinion,
not specific
often cases they site actually working against their arguments....
so bad that the State often has to say IF they want to come back, later, and prepare a proper pleading, of course judge give them another shot, but this document , you should not even entertain and we request that you strike it
(paraphrasing).
They just never learn. Never mind protracted meetings with Jeremy Lyon, they need to hire some solid paralegals who know how to prepare legal documents and research case law for them. Maybe Mrs. Finnell was appauled at the work on this case she is reviewing and decided to, for her own sake, at least align the margins on the boys typewriters ( figuratively).
They had Andrea Lyon and Linda Kenney Baden.It is going to take more than Mrs. Finnell. It is going to take a miracle and I trust the jury will not have just fallen off the turnip truck on the drive in to Orange County.
The judge is going to make very short order of these motions. When he walks in and takes the bench, he will already have his case law he is planning on quoting while ruling right there in piles on his desk. I trust that. If Baez and Mason think just by sheer number they will overwhelm and confuse the State and this Judge, that is just another in a long line of misguided ideas they have had.
"You might want to get you some lunch", Judge Perry warned them once, while explaining he can and will order them to his courtroom for after hours, even nights and weekends if need be. Looking forward to it.
Happy New year Judge Strickland.:seeya:
Someone local.... fax over to Baez some lunch menus for places near the courthouse for me, please. It is the least a taxpayer can do, eh?
I hastily went back & read the TOS via her recommendations. You guys go above & beyond the call of duty & there are several here that certainly missed their calling, so once again, thank you for making this the best forum on the internet! 
