The Worst Ways To Screw People Over In Court (Lawyer Stories)

lawyers offered it what's the worst way you've seen a person screw over someone else in court whether it be criminal civil or divorce proceedings I had a client who was accused of a very nasty sexual offense he had an alibi he was at work when 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 am 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 freak 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 flicked hard sex offender registry jail time the works completely innocent well not my story but a privacy's story they had a drunk driver kills the car worth of people case at the time when they were a general practitioner my boss was representing the family that got hit one where the two kids and the wife had died if the father had not and wanted the college guys drunk driving skin to be mounted on a wall this was back before Facebook was commonly used in court proceedings and before tons of people realized that crap is too great for any attorney worth their weight in salt to pass up so the kid drunk driving college kid had managed to get the judges sympathy during the first part of the hearing by saying he was sorry haunted never going to drink again this was going to ruin his life etc the judge seemed to really be eating it up then comes my boss and immediately burns this kid's remorse to the ground by showing numerous facebook statuses and photos of them binge drinking partying and even joking about driving drunk from the date of the accident up until a night ago the kid looked like he was being forced to swallow hot coals and the judge was absolute livid needless to say the kid had to do way more than just apologize and be remorseful after that 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 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 preceptor refused to offer it he decided to plead guilty and have a jury trial on punishment here in Texas you can choose to have the jury set punishment evidence mostly proceeded as expected the victim testified to having consensual aside from not being old enough to consent intercourse with the defendant getting pregnant etc paternity test introduced defendant took the stand his version of events was that he snuck into victims room at night cover to her mouth and held her down while he forcibly had intercourse 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 charge 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 someone I knew had a pro do case where she had to defend a person who had been charged with a criminal offense don't know what confidential and what not even though the police and the could pretty much pinpoint the crime to her client there was no evidence to tie him to the crime circumstantial at best well she had instructed him to shut up and let her do the talking during the trial as from experience that client sometimes does not know how to answer a question properly she pleads and can show that the court has nothing on her client she feels that for once a pro tío case is getting her way after her plea the judge thanks her for her plea in turns to her client he asks if the client had something to add to the plea client looks at her back at the judge tears well up in his eyes and he blurts out I'm so sorry I'll never do it again but she threw her notes and everything else she had in her hands like the client now convicts apparently she basically got screwed by her own client who screwed himself even worse I'm currently representing a sweet old lady on a case long story short this lady's neighbor convinces her that her house is basically unsellable that her house requires all sorts of repairs the repairs to the house would bankrupt her and that she should just sell the house to him he shows up at her house the next day with documents to sign she has no idea what's going on doesn't read anything actually has an eye condition and signs everything when she finally sees a lawyer to close the deal he says WTF you can't do this you see the price of the transaction was about 36% of what the house is actually worth and there weren't any repairs that needed to be done that would justify the price for not kidding it was stuff like fixing a faucet in the bathroom also she didn't understand that she would have nowhere to live afterwards old lady thought she could just stay in the house until she died to make matters worse she's living off a modest pension and the other side is suing for the house they're essentially trying to get her to cave because her legal fees are getting exorbitant I hate people a witness for the plaintiff in a civil suit who was a co-worker of the plaintiff testified very strongly against the company and in favor of the plaintiff I questioned her about bias toward the plaintiff if they knew each other well were friends etc she said no just friendly co-workers work friends at best I pinned her to it when I got a chance to cross-examine the plaintiff she had no choice but to burn her witness's credibility because not only were they very close friends but they had become sisters-in-law just a few years before I still don't get why people want to fight small bias by destroying their credibility but it happens more than you think not a lawyer but this story always gets me my biological grandmother died 20 years ago although Varian cancer she left all her money trusts bonds to my grandfather to use while and dispersed after death my grandfather remarried something like fifteen years ago to my step grandma my grandfather ended up dying first a few years back my step aunt is a greedy B who lives on the opposite side of the country she's lived off her mother and my grandfather for all of her life she'd come over and take them on vacation where she'd use their money to buy herself things and get a free skiing trip about 8x 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 estate but my grandfather's as well to take care of her 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 with a pacemaker and multiple stints both are on fixed disability income the court date came and I literally wield my dad and while my uncle walked with a cane my step aunt is 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 defendant trying to overturn the full judgment claims person process service herb wasn't him couldn't possibly be him etc adhering process server testifies he clearly recognizes defendant there in court two years later because defendant physically threatened him at time of service made himself pretty memorable oh and process server was sure he served the right guy BC at time of service he had photo of defendant which my client had helpfully saw some mug shots calm sitting waiting for my client and the judge is giving a mass colloquy for an alternative program on a DUI basically probation question has anyone consumed alcohol or taken drugs in the last 24 hours obvious answer aside one dude proudly raises his hand I smoked some dope last night he did not get probation not a lawyer but my dad is a physician and is sometimes called as a professional witness in cases of malpractice in one memorable case a family was suing a doctor for something fairly frivolous and my dad was a witness for the defense the lawyer representing the family was cross-examining my dad and brought up a chapter in a medical textbook and asked my dad to read a highlighted paragraph he dubs and the lawyer says something to the effect of so what you just read means bla bla medical thing my dad confidently replied no it does not mean that lawyer no but if you reads is the author clearly states bla bla medical thing dad no really that's not what the author means lawyer how do you know that's not what the author meant dad well because I wrote it judge basically faso palm while the lawyer mimicked a goldfish and stared at the author name on the chapter basically the best moment of my dad's professional life 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 in to distribute em 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 diversity granted very rural area gets temp divorce order entered saying she cannot have overnight guests of the opposite gender common in 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 has his fancy lawyer asked for a hearing accusing her of violating court order and seeking full custody on top of a tee fees young woman on advice from a mutual friend hires me for this hearing I go into hearing with a copy of his probation arrangement on his posse W intend to sell and unlawful carry but he hasn't told his ally about this and she is unaware she calls him up establish how my client had her new BFF Ron x-y-z Knights judge is very conservative not pleased then opposing counsel passes the witness I asked him if he has a job number what do you do for money things here and there Oh Miz opposing counsel is awfully expensive do you sell em what have you ever sold drugs to make ends meet a number introduced a copy of his guilty plea and straight probation sentencing judge is now staring daggers at him I leaned 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 M @e objects the 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 yours and clean so if you were tested you'd be clean yes opposing counsel asks the same of my client we agree judges then both tested he tests positive for M my client is clean judge denies his motion and asks me to send in new temp orders away 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 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 likely 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 air Court 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 eternium 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 all that he hasn't been paid in his client is basically an asset 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 in 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 the full judgment and 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 I'm a paralegal the best situations are when we get a sovereign citizen someone in the USA who thinks that the US laws do not apply to them for a vast variety of reasons hire us but won't let us do anything on their case we've had to actually fire a bunch of clients because they have gone against our rules like don't send a letter to the judge don't write your own motions don't announce that you're not mark Smith because mark Smith has capital letters and he were born with lowercase letters etc honestly a whole thread on these people wouldn't be enough a wife filed for a restraining order because she wanted the house during divorce husband has good job like 200 K per year employer finds out about restraining order husband is fired he was very specialized employee so only job he can find close to to house ex-wife and daughter is 50 K House gets foreclosed Child Support at less than $500 per month wife has to get job as waitress for cars get repossessed kind off a self scrub at the MPAA and two-dvd John's code for breaking DVD copy protection as part of their lawsuit into their evidence which then became public record the code that breaks DVD copy protection was now available to the entire world defeating the entire purpose of their lawsuit there was the case going on in my town between a father and son that was hilarious the dad is a big-time personal injury attorney around here who started his own firm under his name George sink and his son ended up joining the family business well they had a falling-out so the son goes off to start his own firm he has his dad's name so the dad is suing the son for using the name he gave him to start his own law firm 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 had access to the same info well some crap hit the fan and the property was in arrears and I think some lien was filed the husband would try to talk to his then 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 on em Kim Burt 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 but 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 I lawyer up it's in a magistrate's 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 et cetera 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 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 but the magistrates agreed and we walked away with 600 pounds in costs it was a joy to watch this bloke who was all we're coming to make entry to your house and the police will help before we went in be told to sit down and not say anything else unless he was asked to question not a lawyer but when my fill and mill got divorced she wanted to file jointly for the previous year because they were still married they would have gotten a decent refund he insisted on filing separately despite the fact that he would no 4k because he wanted her to also owe the IRS he did it to frost her ass I was in the tax field for years and I cannot stress enough how spiteful and mean ex-spouses ex-partners can be especially when it comes to money and tax credits deductions I had a guy admit to being high on em when he totaled his car and put himself in the hospital during a probation violation hearing for something completely unrelated the cops picked him up at the hospital when he was discharged then he started mouthing off to the cop about Frick the judge Frick probation Frick the police nobody asked him why he got in the accident for all I knew there weren't even DUI charges against him related to the accident he had just stopped showing up to his probation meetings so a warrant was put out but he was kind enough to run his mouth for five minutes and admits to a bunch of crap he shouldn't have admitted to when asked if I wanted to make any closing remarks I said something like no your honor the record is crystal clear why the state is requesting mr. defendants to have his sentence reinstated and she gave one of those freaking our men kind of looks you have been visited by the science dojo upvote now and you will get high grades and good results within the next week if you 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Length: 19min 33sec (1173 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 12 2019