Getting Away From It All

The great thing about living in Miami is that after a kind of stressful week, I can just hop on my bike and be on the beach in a half hour.  Or less if I'm just chilling on the bay.

While stressful, the fireworks happened early in the week - the aformentined two not guilty jury trials on Monday and Tuesday.  The rest of the week was the usual grind, but I was in combat mode as we thought we might have the opportunity to do one more one jury and/or one bench trial.  Turned out that although we were ready, we couldn't get a jury.  Then on Friday corrections simply didn't bring the client who was thinking he might want to go bench.  We'll probably just do a jury with him anyway as he's set off at this point and sitting on another sentence in an unrelated felony case. 

Lest anyone think I am a rockstar and/or am getting a big head, this is a completely relative kind of litigation.  We just have to be better than the opposition in getting our message to the jury and preparing them for the kind of decision making they'll be doing.  This isn't to say my opposite number across the aisle is a slouch - in fact, of all the prosecutors we've seen in there, he's the most tenacious, the most prepared, and thus my least favorite to go to trial with.  Trial is a team effort - and I've been fortunate enough to have stellar trial partners.  And the goddess of case-law still smiles on me. 

Now I'm off to finish my domestic tasks for the week - cooking, washing, cleaning, etc.  I have a lovely chicken, rice, Shiitake  mushroom and assorted veggies soup calling me at the moment. 

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I'll leave you all with this piece of unfortunateness I noticed while out riding.  Unfortunate because the name of this company blithely uses one of my favorite words.  And then suggests they sell products to paint it with.   There's a thought. 

Comments

[Glenn I]

Maybe they meant American ... in some political dialects it sounds like Merkin.

[Scoplaw]

Yep - that's another fav. ironies of mine.

"He's 'merkin." (Indeed he is.)