aaron

Future former public defender. The minotaur love child of that kid from the emperor’s new clothes and Ferdinand the Bull. A new kind of clown.

[aaron @aaronfriedman86]

Judge (not DA) forced my client to plea while a procedural motion to dismiss (30.30) was pending. She refused to rule on the motion prior to taking the plea and refused to keep the offer on the table until after she was prepared to rule on the motion.

[Victoria, Known Reasonable Person @VisBitchy]

The humanitarian crisis is that jails exist. I got to see the "mental health" wing of one of our local jails and it's extraordinarily obvious that the way we treat incarcerated folks is meant for the convenience of the staff/system, NOT for helping the individual

[aaron @aaronfriedman86]

3. The criteria which was chosen at the time is still the criteria we would choose to use today

[aaron @aaronfriedman86]

The status quo is presumptively wrong

[aaron @aaronfriedman86]

2. It must still be the best way of doing something, according to that criteria, meaning no progress has occurred in terms of technology etc, such that a better way is available now that wasn’t before

[Eugene V. Debs @DebsEbooks]

Socialism is a theory of society... in which the workers are to own the social means of production and in which the workers will use them, not to produce multimillionaires, but to fill the land with wealth, so that poverty such as we now understand it may be abolished

[aaron @aaronfriedman86]

What if I put a code word in each of my motions and then during motion arguments asked the judge for the code word to see if she read it

[aaron @aaronfriedman86]

No contact orders of protection are unconstitutional, unless a previous no offensive contact oop has proven ineffective, and no amount of poorly reasoned case law can change my mind

[aaron @aaronfriedman86]

@kirk_rylee read your ocjcj Suicide article- please consider exclusively using language like “incarcerated man”- as you do in your second paragraph - rather than “inmate,” as the latter is dehumanizing. Thank you for your reporting and for your consideration of this suggestion.

[Victoria, Known Reasonable Person @VisBitchy]

@aaronfriedman86 Lmao right? Like I do misdemeanors now and I am kept awake thinking about how almost all of my client's problems could be solved if they had money, treatment, and hope

[aaron @aaronfriedman86]

@VisBitchy Of all the things that have fucked with my sleep since becoming a pd, thinking someone is guilty is yet to make the list

[aaron @aaronfriedman86]

1 month into being a Public Defender and one of the biggest frustrations is how it really doesn’t matter that I’m right. Is this what being a woman feels like?

[Katie ✨ @KFustich]

When will they make a public defender tv show? I will take a sitcom, a drama, whatever! Someone please write it, or I will be forced to.

[aaron @aaronfriedman86]

Nothing’s wrong with clients calling my office phone 8:15 on a Saturday morning. There is something wrong with me being there to answer it.

[Jabari Brisport @JabariBrisport]

14 Democratic Senators have come out against the nomination of LaSalle.

He doesn't have the votes in our conference alone.

So every time the Governor asks for a full Senate vote, she is asking Republicans to help confirm her judge.

[aaron @aaronfriedman86]

Anybody ever talk about how much lower the pleading standards are in civil versus criminal cases?

[aaron @aaronfriedman86]

I don’t know if there’s room in my heart for another person because I’m so deeply in love with every legal argument I’ve ever made

[Frog and Toad Bot @FrogandToadbot]

'I am sorry,' said Frog. 'That hat is much too big for you. I will give you something else.'

'No,' said Toad. 'This hat is your present to me. I like it. I will wear it the way it is.'

[Frog and Toad Bot @FrogandToadbot]

Toad did not answer. He had fallen asleep.