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Done with trial
Won't be blogging much today, tho. Understand a jury trial means getting up at 6, and working on it until about 10 PM. Lunches wolfed down in haste (you get an hour and a quarter, but some of that is lost walking from courthouse to office, and the rest spent eating quickly while thinking and making notes). Work right through the weekend. 7-8 hours in the courtroom multitasking, simultaneously taking notes, noting if you should object, noting what questions to ask the witness, rooting thru depositions and past statements of the witness, etc. By the end of it you're staggering and getting rather goofy.
I've been in that mode since Feb. 3, and it'll take a while to decompress while waiting for the jury verdict. Which may be a hung jury, since Federal rules require unaminity. Yup, previous guesses as to the case were correct.
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Barnett is a hero.
I'm glad he had you representing him.
From my far-off, amatuer perspective his case hits all kinds of basic issues regarding protecting your country, your land, your family, and your self, all of which he's on the right side of.
Gotta decompress? Go to the gun range. Worked for me after a particularly stressful day..
Sounds far too expensive for me. I would have just taking the rope to save my family from living in streets, LOL!
been following the trial as best I could. I see the jury retired for the night without reaching a verdict.
That worries me. Because, there should be no question at all that your client is not guilty of a damn thing but upholding the law and protecting his family and property.
Please, I pray there are not 12 people in Arizona stupid enough to see it another way.
However, I do worry,as it should have been in the door, vote, return an acquittal. bada bing, bada boom.
The foregoing was not intended as a critique on your ability, but rather the ability of the jury. A reading of the relative law should have been enough to acquit. At no point did he violate the law.
There are many auslanders in AZ who come from areas where protecting home and property aren't considered basic rights anymore. Many of these folks brought those beliefs with them. If enough of them got on the jury, Mr. Barnett might have a problem.
Well, best wishes to your client, you and the American People.....this case is an absolute travesty - the 'plantiffs' are CRIMINALS complaining about being treated like criminals.
And MALDEF is a terrorist organization.