And on. . .
Second NG jury trial tonight - that's 2 in 24hrs. And tomorrow is a trial day. More when I surface for air. I did get a nice compliment though. The state attorney said I make his heart race every time I step up to the podium on an MJOA. I assumed he was talking about a panic response, but he may just like the new beard.
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Double congrats, dude! It sounds like this has been an incredible week for you!
Posted by: ambimb | January 18, 2008 at 12:26 AM
Nice going, cymrawd! Put please enlighten an ignorant Celt from a foreign jurisdiction - what signifies "MJOA"? I'm sure the concept is familiar, but we use different termionology here up North.
Posted by: The Bardd. | January 18, 2008 at 12:51 PM
More details later - but the week is done (thankfully). Good things happen when you set 61 cases for trial on a Monday. I think that's our new motto.
MJOA =s "Motion for a Judgment of Acquittal." Everyone down here calls them "JOA"s which I think is kind of silly - they're motions.
In this case, we were going to trial for the fourth time with this prosecutor in front of one of our judges. In the past we'd scored one NG bench trial, and won 2 MJOAs on jury trials. Hence the prosecutor's nervousness. This one (the first with him) went out to the jury and we ended up with a Not Guilty. The client was ecstatic - hugs all around.
Or perhaps the motto should be: "Scoplaw - cooling the ardor of the state since early this week."
Posted by: Scoplaw | January 18, 2008 at 04:28 PM