An introduction:
I am employed (currently) as an intern for a public defender's office. I am a law student, having just finished my first year and (thankfully) passing my classes. And that's it.
The first thing I did as an intern was to research and draft a motion to dismiss sodomy charges because the statute of limitations had run. Today, I got to see an attorney in the office argue my motion in front of a judge. It will be denied.
The majority of our cases are non-support, and those get depressing. The more I see of them, the more convinced I am that I will never become pregnant by a man who has five kids by five different women and who owes child support on all of them. I guess that wasn't really a hard choice to make, but it's become more important to me after working this job for about three weeks.
The interesting cases are the sex crimes. The attornies always say that these are the easiest cases to handle, because the offenders generally plead pretty easily. But getting to read the files is ridiculously entertaining. I recently got to read a file about a man in his thirties who moved here to be with a thirteen year old he met on the internet. And yes, "be with" in the biblical sense. They had conversations over instant messanger, all of which were included in the probable cause statement, and of course, the girl to whom he was talking was not, in fact, thirteen. Nor was she a girl. Instead it was a police officer who is (as I like to think) in his mid-forties, pudgy, balding, and male. (In reality, I have no idea as to the identity of the police officer.) The best conversation is the very last one, in which they discuss the defendant's plans to move here. The conversation is basically reposted here, with different screen names (obviously) and artistic license:
Prvboy30: i dnt no about this...thyve ben doing stngs l8ly 2 catch ppl
Hotillegalgrrl13: rly? how does that wrk?
Prvboy30: u no...a cop pretnds 2 b 13 nd talks drty 2 men...
Hotillegalgrrl13: lol...im not a cop
I just like to imagine that the cop was surrounded by five other male cops, eating donuts and drinking coffee (like they do) and trying hard not to piss himself from laughing so hard.
