by Murray Meyer | Aug 26, 2009 | theater
No matter how many times i ask my clients – please please don’t have your friends in the courtroom audience cause the jury hears about gangs and they get scared. When they see people in the audience who look like what they think gangsters look like...
by Murray Meyer | Aug 25, 2009 | theater
When I started the case the grandma of my client gave me a big bear hug cause she was so happy I was on her grandson’s case and I was so much better than the prior lawyer. In the middle of the case she’s yelling at me as I leave the courtroom –...
by Murray Meyer | Aug 20, 2009 | theater
Remember in Lawrence of Arabia when he goes back across the desert they have just crossed to rescue his Arab buddy who fell off his camel and Omar Sharif tells Lawrence not to bother cause “IT IS WRITTEN” (that the guy is toast) and Lawrence being the kind...
by Murray Meyer | Aug 3, 2009 | theater
Attorney are always “conducting discovery”. First time I heard this term I thought wow, this is deep – a secret rite. Now I know it’s just the DA giving you the police report. So much for...
by Murray Meyer | Aug 2, 2009 | theater
Judge says something I don’t understand. Heard the words but I couldn’t understand what it meant. Something about procedure. She’s getting impatient with me because I don’t understand. The DA walks over to me and whispers in my ear. “I...
by Murray Meyer | Jul 23, 2009 | theater
A criminal lawyer I know cited a case to persuade a judge to try his client separately from the other defendants – of course this is done all the time but the interesting thing about the case that he used was that it was a Federal case and it was the Timothy...