Chase that feeling

Well, gang, this seems as good a time as any to update. Namely, because I WON MY FIRST JURY TRIAL!!!

Yes, the third time's the charm, and I must say that it has me energized, elated, and very, VERY vindicated.

So, as far as professional baseball hitting stats go, I would for sure be a candidate for the all star team right now, batting .333.

Obviously, I need to take the win with some perspective, though. I will still lose the overwhelming majority of my cases. I will still have clients plead guilty to crimes they may have not committed just to get released from custody. And I will still have clients that will call me "dumptruck," "public preteder," and mix me up with the other male misdemeanor deputy from my office. :-/

Still, as far as wins go, I'm going to ride this one for a while, and continue to chase the feeling- when a case is defensible, I'm going to pull out all the stops, even if it means I get stressed, frustrate front office staff because my office has more errant files than Area 51, and I have to eat frozen dinners while figuring out in limine motions to file the morning after. When you work hard for something, and you're right, it just feels SOOOOO GOOOOOD.

So, up to this date, I can effectively gloat that I've won a jury trial, won a suppression motion (two weeks ago- which was also awesome), and won a revocation hearing. I'm beginning to feel more comfortable in my skin as an attorney, which definitely accounts for a few of the dollars that I, and my fellow public defenders don't get enough of.

I'd also like to send a very special interwebz shout out to a very special interwebz reader who made me Indian food over the weekend. Much like her sandwiches which were the sole reason for me passing the bar (besides my cheating), I'm going to say that they played the pivotal role in getting the coveted two-word verdict.