Recovered from this hangover....
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I am really sorry you're being put in this position... and that this is far from the only time your firm has been giving you this crap either! I only speak for myself, but I don't know that I could do what you're doing, so your tenacity is admirable. At least putting up with the firm's crap for as long as you have looks good on a resume... so keep that in mind as you work through this, and start looking toward your future.
If I may ask, is law your true passion, or are there other fields or subjects you're trained/interested in? You might consider this an opportunity to branch out, be that toward different ways of using your current training, or pursuing something else that's more in line with what you'd like to be doing in the long-term.
Good luck, and I wish you strength in getting through this.
Thank you Solifuge, that was rather nice of you actually. I like law, but the market is unprecedentedly terrible, as is work. As for branching out, I've done a fair deal of things before and perhaps I should again, or maybe I could find some kind of a life. Who knows. I would like to practice long term and might but will not be dealing with this particular type of specialty crime again, even if it means being off appointment lists. There are firms that do nothing but defend this type of crime that should've been appointed; I don't work for one. My new resume' will not be going to one.
Aside from its heinous nature, it really really helps to specialize in this particular area when you're doing this sort of thing.
In my university, there was a branchout in law studies in which students could choose to go for the "civil" route, and the "penal" route (the latter was regarded as having easier subjects). Of course, this did not prevent them from going into a practice opposite of their branch choice afterwards.... an ex (sort of) of mine went for the penal path (because of the aforementioned theoretical ease), and now she has her own buffette and does pretty much anything, for what I've seen from her webpage.
It... doesn't exactly work that way here, at least not where I am. I was intentionally vague, but I meant specialize in defending this particular crime.
Hopefully you can get him to go for a plea bargain and be done with the whole damned thing relatively quickly.
He attacked and injured his last lawyer just for suggesting a plea deal.
Good luck on that one.
Welp, looks like it's time to brush up on reading comprehension. Perhaps you should just forcibly march entice the guy with a cattle prod into a shower cell and turn on the gas?
I admit, what he's done is despicable and I have a hard time looking at him after the photos. Death penalty isn't on the table though and I'm glad for that. Never wanted to do this; never doing it again.
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