Can I laugh at this?
(not the humidity, the lawyerity)
So the problem wasn't the company, it was him being too direct?
Erm, both? The problem is "how do I do basic task?" How do I, in this case, verify somebody works at a given place. H.R.? They are worthless.
It's a sad commentary on the skills gap fresh graduates are missing and should have been taught so long ago. I do not blame them, I blame those with the audacity to take money from students with college and masters level professional law degrees but who leave them without those skills....
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I am getting sadly proficient at these sentencing speeches:
"Good Morning Your Honor. [Name] for the Defense.
No victim; no one harmed; nothing stolen; nothing damaged by Mr. [name], who is homeless.
He doesn’t bother anybody. Days, he spends in the library lost in books. Nights, he spends in homeless shelters, when they let him. It’s hot outside. Picture Chirstmastime—the dead of winter. Biting cold, ice in Northern Ohio. A friend, the co-defendant, offered him a warm place to stay and alcohol. He accepted. Mr. [name] followed his friend in a house, put down the dufflebag with his meager possessions, took off his coat, and sat down on the couch. What a nice Christmas gesture: to let the less fortunate warm up inside for once.
Turns out his friend, the codefendant, didn’t own that house and should’ve have been there. Mr. [name] didn’t know that when he was invited in, and honestly, beggars can’t be choosers. How could he have known? Should he have asked to see the dually recorded deed before accepting warmth and charity?
At the heart of this conviction and before you stands an unjustly broken man who did not understand…. Ignorance being no excuse, if Mr. [name] knew then what he knows now, he wouldn’t be standing before you. I highly doubt he will trouble you again.
It should be noted that, Mr. [name] has cooperated with the police and made every good faith effort to appear before this court, going so far as to walk here a considerable distance.
I guess if you offer a homeless man alcohol and a warm place to stay in the dead of winter; he might just take you up on that.
If the State calls that burglary; then I call it sad. I respectfully call upon this Honorable Court to accept the negotiated plea deal made with the State and sentence him to probation only with no jail time. I know we have seen and will continue to see terrible things in this room Your Honor. I tell you here and now on the record: this is not one of them…. This is not one of them. It is and has been, in fact, an honor and a privilege to represent someone so deserving of representation and I would submit, deserving of this court's leniency. But for the Grace of God, there go we all."
Two hours of fighting with the Prosecution tooth and nail barely managed even that.
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