Not A Lawyer

Predicting human response is a tricky business, yet so many occupations are simply required to predict how people will react in order to be good at what they do. Comedians, advertisers and definitely jury pickers have to be dead on accurate about how their “audiences” will respond to what they say and do. It is crucial.

I don’t know who picked the jury for this case and whether or not they should be fired or if the attorney just didn’t do their job. Perhaps it was just a pretty callous bunch in the jury pool.. but they awarded just $2 to a couple who had their very sick son basically kidnapped from them by Utah Family Services in 1999.

You can read the full story at TotalInjury.com

This family has been through living hell for the past few years battling DCFS and trying to get laws changed so that other families would not have to go through what they have been through.

For all their misery, a jury awarded them just $2, which is exactly $1 per parent. Something apparently went devastatingly wrong somewhere.

Now, the family is petitioning the court to have the state pay over half a million dollars in legal fees that they racked up over the course of this legal battle. Of course the state doesn’t want to pay it and say they have legal reasons not to reimburse this family since they basically lost in court.

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In Washington, a prosecutor is accused of sleeping with the defendant’s mother in order to get information about the defense strategy.  The teen boy is accused of arson.

Lewis County Prosecutor Lewis Golden says he did have a sexual relationship with the accused arsonist’s mother, but that the affair ended when the teen was arrested.  He says he’s done nothing wrong and directed the deputy prosecutors not to give the boy any special treatment.

The defense attorney has asked for the charges to be dismissed against the 17 year old boy, claiming that Golden manipulated and intimidated his mother.

The mother of the defendant signed a sworn statement saying that Golden used their sexual relationship to control her and to deny her son the justice he deserves.

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