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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 3751016" data-attributes="member: 19675">While I'm amused at her answer, I do have some sympathy for her...It is very difficult to perform under pressure & scrutiny in real time.My first criminal case as a solo attorney was horrible.  I had a script and I followed it- my client was trying to plead guilty in order to get into a drug rehab program.  Unfortunately, the prosecuting attorney had screwed up his indictment so that my client was charged with posession of a drug he didn't have- grounds for immediate dismissal of the charges.  But my guy spoke up and said as much because he genuinely wanted to get into that rehab program.So he had to redraft it, but in the process, combined the name of the drug from the first indictment with the name of the drug my client actually had...thus creating a drug name that didn't exist.  Again, grounds for dismissal, and again, my client spoke up.By this time, it was lunch, and had to get a different DA to redraft the charges...and we had to appear before a completely different judge...Who was completely pissed off- because of a storm, most of his morning docket simply flaked out and didn't show up, intending to appear in the afternoon session after the storm had passed...making life difficult for him and his staff.He was biting off the heads of people who had been before him for decades...And my script was missing.I was so nervous that I could hardly stand.  My client- the soon-to-be-convict in the orange jumper- was comforting me- "It'll be awraaat- you bin doin' fine so far- we just gotta get through this wun...layust...tahm."  Without my script, I stumbled over my words, and even had to be prompted along by the bailiff once.Luckily, I managed to stay upright and get my client good & convicted.  Honestly, I was so nervous I probably could have done that if he were innocent.</blockquote>

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