If You Are A Lawyer For A Long Period Of Time Do You Go To Court Less Or More Often?
It Depends On What Field You Are In. But In The Beginning You May Be In Court More Often As You Get Older Than You Hopefully Learn How To Stay Out Of Court. Or You May Handle More Customers. Over Half Of The Graduated May Never Go Into Court However As They Assist Other People But Never Go To Court.
What Led You To Become A Lawyer?
One Was In Business School And Needed Further Education. Had To Choose Between MBA Or Law. At The Time MBA Were Just Coming On So He Chose Law To Be Different.
One Had A Lawyer As A Father And Read A Lot Of The Material To Read, Ad Losing Arguments With His Father.
Worse Part Of Being A Lawyer?
When A Good Person Comes In And Is Basically Screwed.
E.G. A Person Who Sells Alcohol To A Minor Unknowingly
There Is Some Limitations On Their Rights.
Cohesion Vs. Interrogation
Concept Is The Same But The Degree Is Different.
Interrogation Is More Breaking Down Of A Person’s Mind.
Cohesion Is Convincing Them To Give Information.
State Vs Federal Power
It Always Depends On The Circumstances Of The Crime
Location Of The Crime, Type Of Crime, Who Is Involved.
How Does Double Jeopardy Work
If You Are Charged Once For A Criminal Crime, Once The Trial Is Over, Guilty Or Innocent, The Same Crime Cannot Be Charged Again.
It Is Made So That One Person Cannot Be Charged Over And Over If A Jury Keeps Finding Them Innocent If The Prosecutor Wants Them To Be Guilty.
In The Case Of Miranda V Arizona, Miranda Was Convicted Of The Same Crime Twice.
If A Officer Goes Into A House Looking For One Thing (With A Warrant) But Found Another Is It Still Admissible
If It Is Open And Obvious Than It Is Admissible.
If The Found The First Thing, They Have Executed Their Warrant, Now They Should Leave.
If An Illegal Substance Found They Can Either Prosecute It In The Same Crime Or Another Charge Altogether.
What If An Illegal Substance Was Found While The Warrant Was Being Looked For?
Most Likely There Would Be A Conviction.
Also If It Falls Out Of Something Into The Open Than It Is Admissible.
>Side Note
*Things Like Murder And Abduction Among Others May Not Have A Statute Of Limitations.
If You Know A Person Is Guilty Can You Opt Out Of A Case?
If You Are Told To Take The Case Than You Have To Do The Very Best That You Can. If You Throw Them Under The Bus Than You Can Have Your License Taken,
If They Know That The Person Is Going To Lie Than They Can Say That The Person Is Going To Tell The Events In Their Own Words So That They Are Basically Not Assisting The Lie.
Does Arizona Use The Daubert Vs. Frye Standard?
Arizona Follows Its Own Path. It Looks To See If It Is Sufficient Enough.
In Most Cases It May Be Up To The Judge To Decide To Make The Evidence Admissibe Or Not.
What If One Side Of A Trial Outpowers The Other Via Money Etc.
E.G. A Corporation Vs. A Common Person.
Only One Lawyer Gets To Speak On Each Side In Court.
Also The Jury Will See That One Side Kills The Other.
In The End The Person Who Can Pull Out More Stuff And Look Under Every Rock Than The Other Side.
What If One Side Decides To Pull Out The Case To Basically Kill The Finds Of The Other.
Contingency, To Hire A Lawyer And They Only Get Paid If They Win.
Courts Can Set Deadlines So They Can Move The Trial Forward.
What If An Expert Witness Publishes An Article Previously And It Is Different From What They Are Currently Are Saying?
The Article Can Be Used To Weaken The Reputation Of The Expert.
Also The Expert Can Explain The Difference From The Past To The Present.
Double Jeopardy Vs. Appeal.
An Appeal Is The Same Case But In Another Court.
Double Jeopardy Is When It Is An Entire New Case.
If It Is Almost The Same Crime With Sight Tweaks, There Can Be An Argument On Whether It Is Double Jeopardy Or A New Crime.
Why Do Some Courts People Swear On The Bible?
In Most Arizona Courts You Just Raise Your Right Hand To Affirm To Tell The Truth
The Idea Is You Are Going To Tell The Truth As You Have Sworn On You Higher Belief.
In Arizona It Is Our Constitutional Right That We Cannot Be Asked About Our Belief In God.
It Doesn’t Matter Anyways Because If You Lie Than You Can Trial Them For Perjury.
Why Is It In Arizona We Lie Detectors Admissible.
Because Most People Done See Them As Reliable
What Is The Biggest Flaw In The Law System?
People Don’t Have Full Access To The System As It Is Over They Costs.
In Other Cases Amounts Being Disputed Are Just Too Small That No One Cares
When It Comes To Illegal Immigrants Can You Ask?
There Are Some Law Firms That Do Ask But Most People Don’t Ask. They Are Fully Allowed To But There Is No Reason To Ask. It Depends On The Lawyer. Immigratons Lawyers May Need To Know.
Are There Any Cases That Have Stuck To The Back Of Your Mind?
An Elderly Couple Owned A Hallmark Card Shop On An Indian Reservation. The Space Next To It Was Empty. Someone Wanted That Piece And A Third Of The Shop. In The Night They Moved Everything And Basically Hijacked The Shop.
After A Complex Case They Got Beaten In The Court. (They Were Basically Plowed Over)
Representing A Sheriffs’ Deputy That Got Ran Over By A Criminal
Got His Pelvis Basically Maimed
They Take Him To The Hospital And Got Tons Of Surgery
Than He Went To A Rehab Hospital, And Mistreated Him
The Hospital Denied It.
Bent The Plates And Pulled The Screws.
Most Interesting Part Was Opening Statement
Halfway Through The Opening Statement One Of Jurors Passes Out As He Is Talking About Screws Being Pulled Out Of A Pelvis, Bending Metal Plates, Etc.
