I previously posted some thoughts about the harmful impression created on the jury by lawyers bickering and fighting with each other in an out of control court room. While listening to public radio in my car http://www.goodradio.org/ I heard a broadcast about being a peaceful parent in raising children. The goal that was discussed was not to harm a child in their mind, heart or body. To raise a child without doing physical harm by any violence towards the child,…
A friend of mine who is a great trial lawyer has been in a lengthy jury trial with two defense lawyers. The atmosphere in the court room is high octane with the lawyers at each other’s throats. I sent my friend this note. He told me later that he had, with great effort, figured this out himself before I wrote and had managed to get control of himself. I think the advice I gave is right and here it is:…
I’ve filed a claim of damages in a case where a man was shot to death in an Everett parking lot by the police. I don’t usually take police cases of this kind because I have so many family members who are in law enforcement, but this is a case that I felt needed to be legally prosecuted. The family waited for over three months for the police to provide an explanation or report, but had not even been given…