Breezy all at Sea

Today was a trying day. My friend asked me to go to an arraignment on his behalf for his client who is in custody. He told me to be there at 1:30. I left my house an hour early and arrived in the city where the court was with thirty minutes to spare. And then I got lost. I had mapquested directions and he gave me directions, but for some reason, I drove in circles for one hour. Yes, one hour. I had a mini heart attack and freaked out in my car. Not a good idea. When I finally arrived at the courthouse, it turns out that my friend’s client was seen first. So then I got to go talk to him back in the holding cell and explain what had happened. I felt like the biggest asshole for being late. But what I don’t understand and what is different from where I worked as a prosecutor, they just arraigned him without counsel present. Which is legal, but where I worked last year, if the defendant has an attorney, we just waited for the attorney to show up. But here they just roll them in one by one and out they go. Which sucks for the client, but not much I could do. I felt awful, and still do, but my friend reassured me it’s ok. Especially as court started at 1pm, not 1:30 like he told me, so even if I had been there on time, it still would have been too late. It was interesting speaking to the client in the holding cell though. I’ve only ever been on the other side of the law and never have gone into a cell. Kinda cool. Kinda makes me miss it. But I don’t miss where I worked last year. No siree Bob.  Bring on the contracts and transactional law–that’s what I really want to do.

As an aside, summer is finally here. We hit the 80s today. And July starts next week. Awesome.