Lawyers, What's The Worst Way Someone Was Screwed Over In Court? (AskReddit)

lawyers of Reddit what's the worst way you've seen a person screw over someone else in court whether it be criminal civil or divorce proceedings nasty custody fight the ex-wife was a lawyer and represented herself the ex-husband had a pretty shitty lawyer she kept hoarding things back to court trying to get more benefits from him and his lawyer just let it keep happening and it was destroying his life allegations of child abuse was taking so much money that he could barely afford a [ __ ] apartment and couldn't afford a car which both figured in later for custody finally the ex-wife's father also a lawyer asked to meet with the judge and mentioned a few things that he knew were going on one of the children was manic-depressive and the ex-wife would take him off his meds before it was the ex-husbands turn for custody the child abuse allegations were from the ex-husband trying to restrain the child during a manic episode because he wasn't medicated the ex-wife's had intentionally timed the child abuse allegation to fall just before the holidays so the ex-husband couldn't see the kids for Halloween Thanksgiving Christmas she bragged her family that it would do the maximum emotional damage possible doing it then the ex-wife had forged documents to overstate the ex-husband's income when alimony was being determined oh and the ex-wife was sleeping with the ex-husbands lawyer more of a case of screwing himself over but here goes this was a case another prosecutor in my office had a few years back thirty year-old defendant was charged with sexual assault of a child after he got his girlfriend's fourteen-year-old sister pregnant she actually kept the baby so the police just waited and got a paternity test no surprise defendant was the father defendant wanted probation prosector refused to offer it he decided to plead guilty and have a jury trial on punishment here in Texas you can choose to have a jury set punishment evidence mostly proceeded as expected the victim testified to having consensual aside from not being old enough to consent sex with the defendant getting pregnant et Cie paternity test introduced defendant took the stand his version of events lists that he snuck into victim's room at night covered her mouth and held her down while he forcibly had sex with her against her will it seemed like his own lawyer had no idea that's the story he settled on the jury deliberated about 15 minutes before returning a verdict of 17 years the maximum possible as charged was 20 when interviewed by the attorneys afterwards one of them said they decided on 17 years so the defendant would never forget the age of consent in Texas again there's a lawyer in my town who has a reputation for being a real dick he left a very successful firm to go off on his own he and the firm negotiate at which clients he would take and how eventual fees from those clients would be divided all seemed fine and dandy as soon as he's out the door he sues his old firm saying the deal is unenforceable and that he should 100% of the fees from the clients who came with him he lost and appeals lost again and appealed to the state Supreme Court where they shot his ass down and an extremely diplomatic language pretty much called him a dick one time I saw an indigent defendant who was in custody tell the judge his public defender wasn't working hard enough and he wanted the judge to appoint different counsel the judge asked him what specifically was the problem and he said I don't want a female lawyer I need a man who can take charge and fight for me or something very similar to that the judge also female said that's not how it works then he starting yelling and getting into specifics about his public defender just mainly I don't like her she won't visit me etc the judge is annoyed and looks at him and is like fine I'll appoint another attorney for you but because you are not satisfied with your attorney and I need time to appoint you new counsel I'm not going to hear any other issues today and will reset your case a few days later the judge sends defendant notice of his new appointed attorney who happens to also be female and notice of the case reset for six weeks the case was originally set for a bond hearing and the Daland his PD had agreed to release him on an unsecured bond meaning he would have gotten out that day if he hadn't thrown his temper tantrum instead he waited another six weeks in jail just to have another female attorney represent I've seen a parent use non-existent discipline as a tool to win over their teenage child so that the child will choose to live with said rubbish parents and rubbish parent will receive child support from the other parent it boils my blood seeing someone allowing their 15 old child to drop out of school get high every day buy them drugs alcohol just about every negative thing you could do to a kid just so they don't have to pay $100 in child support a month was involved in a custody case where a wife cheated on her husband and had a child as a result she let husband believe the child was --es until she was about five years old and they were divorcing to stop him from getting custody she convinced the biological father to try to get custody thinking that if he won she would wind up with the child became a huge three-way fight multiple sets of grandparents involved attorneys fees skyrocketed because the case would have been pretty quick otherwise she couldn't pay her attorney tried to get the vo data got even Messier etc basically there still isn't an agreement all parties will follow they are in and out of court every year or so she screwed herself this story always gets me my biological grandmother died 20 years ago of ovarian cancer she left all her money trusts bonds to my grandfather to use while alive and dispersed after death my grandfather remarried something like 15 years ago to my step grandma my grandfather ended up dying first a few years back my step aren't is a greedy [ __ ] who lives on the opposite side of the country she's lived off of her mother and my grandfather for all of her life she'd come over and take them on vacation where she'd used their money to buy herself things and get a free skiing trip about 8 X a year after my grandfather passed my step grandma had to move where her children live to get care for dementia my step aunt has access to not only her own mother's date but my grandfather's as well to take care of a needs that wasn't enough she decided to try and sue my dad and uncle for their dead biological mother's estate my dad is bilaterally paralyzed and in a wheelchair my uncle is a triple bypass survivor whether passim occur in multiple stints both are on fixed disability income the court date came and I literally wield my dadan while my uncle walked with a cane my step aren't his entirely able-bodied and rolling in the millions my step grandma and grandfather worked their whole lives to earn the judge took one look at the whole picture and she was absolutely denied access to my biological grandmother's estate we were there for less than an hour this wasn't my case but followed it closely because it was an acquaintance's divorce proceedings he and his now ex-wife shared some commercial property that was worth some dough they were both on the paperwork /har access to the same info while some should hit the fan in the property was in arrears and I think some lien was filed the husband would try to talk to his end wife about the whole thing and she would blow him off not only would she ignore him and the finances she started cheating on him fast forward to divorce its contentious and they get down to fighting for the primary residence whose market value unencumbered is much less than the commercial building she demanded the house and the husband effectively offered to give her the commercial building if he could keep the residence she never paid attention to how bad off the commercial building was and for some strange reason her lawyer didn't do any due diligence so they took the deal I don't know if the asset allocation included any saving conditions or caveats for the ex-wife that I did like to see that her own disinter astray have led to bargaining for an underwater property instead of a paid off house I have been in dispute with British Gas for around 10 years every now and again they take me to court every time I win and we go away for another few years the last time our lawyer DAP it's in Imagi straits even though it's a civil matter my solicitor waited for the British Gas guy to swear his oath to tell the truth the whole truth etc then asked him what he knew of the previous court cases when the guy said he didn't know anything about them my solicitor ripped into him saying he'd just claimed to tell the whole truth so clearly nothing he says can be trusted it went on for a few minutes it was kind of brutal the magistrates agreed and we walked away with 600 pounds in costs it was a joy to watch this bloke who was all we are coming to make entry to your house and the police will help before we went and be told to sit down and not say anything else unless he was asked a question to fend off some of the questions it's to do with a disconnected meter at my house for electric to a closed shop I have written to the seer I've had my MP involved and been to court four times British Gas don't change don't listen so I've given up I'll just go to court every now and again and claim my six hundred pounds I'm being sparse on details here due to confidentiality but I had a client who was accused of a very nasty sexual offense he had an alibi he was at work where he was the boss he had an employee who could absolutely vouch for his being there I talked to the employee employee confirmed this it gets closer to the trial and around the time when I need to send in an alibi notice which is advance notice to the crown so that they can investigate the alibi and determine whether or not it's true but I'm being careful so I call the employee up again turns out my client fired him in the interim and so the employee quite candidly tells me oh yeah he was definitely at work but that's not what I'll say in court [ __ ] that guy he is going down I did not call him as a witness or file the alibi notice still won the trial but if I hadn't thought to call the guy or if he'd been less candid my client would have been [ __ ] hard sex offender registry jail time the works completely innocent not someone else but himself the guy and his lawyer missed court appearances sometimes one of them sometimes both with little or no warning and with suspect excuses it started getting ridiculous and we kept pointing out holes in his story like he said he left for another country without knowing about the appearance but his lawyer stood in court and said he told him beforehand or all of a sudden he was in a former Soviet bloc country for fertility treatments and it would ruin everything if he came back now or when he was visiting dying relatives on another continent or he was going to the airport when he had to rush to the hospital and showed us an admitting form in another language that we translated it showed he was there but also that he was discharged he also tried firing his attorney and saying he needed more time to brief a new attorney who had the next appearance would say he hasn't been able to talk to his client so he needs to adjourn for that he hasn't been paid and his client is basically in US and he needs to be relieved we kept saying to the judge he was doing it to stall but the judge kept giving him the benefit of the doubt we even showed him other cases where he skipped appearances and the judges threatened sanctions until finally he didn't show up for an appearance where the judge had specifically told him I don't care if your meeting with the Pope I'm ordering you to be here boom his answer was stricken default judgment in full was granted to our side neither he nor his lawyer showed up for the hearing where the judge determined exactly how much of a judgement we should get and then had the nerve to file a motion that the judgment was unfair because he didn't get a chance to dispute anything too many criminal clients situations to counter them screwing themselves over one of the very few family law cases I handled as a young at he sticks out to me though young woman and young man have child young woman seeks divorce from young man because he enjoys the thug life he had recently been arrested and charged for possession w slash in to distribute meth felony and in possession of a firearm and lawful carry young man doesn't like her leaving him he hires a local big-name top divorce at E granted very rural area gets tempted or sorta rented saying she cannot have overnight guests of the opposite sex common and rural conservative areas think it's mostly a thing of the past in more urban places young woman starts seeing someone new young man is very upset about this as his fancy lawyer asked for a hearing accusing her of violating court order and seeking full custody on top of a t fee's young woman on advice from a mutual friend hires me for this hearing I sit down with opposing counsel and she basically tries to strong-arm me w slash her experience and lays out egregious terms mother must not only give up primary custody but must have visitation with a supervisor and pay child support and daddy fees she knows I'm a new baby at E in town fairly certain by had been licensed for less than a year I bought and she says she'll see us in court I go into hearing with a copy of his probation arrangement on his post w / intent to sell and unlawful carry he hasn't told his Atty about this and she is unaware she calls him up establishes how my client had her new BFF over on X Y Z tonight's judge is very conservative not pleased then opposing counsel passes the witness I asked him if he has a job no what do you do for money things here and there Oh milliseconds opposing counsel is awfully expensive do you sell meth what have you ever sold drugs to make ends meet uhnot introduced a copy of his guilty plea and strayed probation sentencing judges now staring daggers at him I lean over to my client sitting next to me and whisper if you took a drug test today be honest would you be completely clean yes I asked the young man when was the last time you did meth at E objects but judge overrules I know this judge will drug test people on the spot as he is also the misdemeanor drug court judge it's been years I'm clean so if you were tested you'd be clean yes opposing counsel asks the same of my client we agree judge has them both tested he tests positive for meth my client is clean judge denies his motion and asks me to send in new temp orders where young man is required to maintain employment and start paying child support and places him on supervised visits icing on the cake opposing counsel actually calls me and leaves me a voicemail congratulating me on and I quote handing her ass to her for the first time in a long time had a criminal jury trial formas to mean a criminal mischief over four years ago state filed charges and kept amending the information to the point where they left the actual victim out of the trial and proceeded with the two eyewitnesses well one of the witnesses was my clients ex and the other witness was the ex's new GF they claimed my client vandalized the actual victim's car Plante denied everything well apparently the state and both witnesses had no idea that the ex had her outstanding warrant for not paying child support to my client which created a motive for him to lie asked him if he was aware that he had a warrant out for his arrest on the stand he didn't know the judge excused the jurors the bailiffs arrested the ex on the stand state rested judge granted our motion for judgment of acquittal because we had good case law for the victim not being their client walked away free and the ex went to jail

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Length: 16min 43sec (1003 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 24 2019