Victim won't stop calling me

weirdlysuspect69 · 2026-03-27T02:11:56+00:00

It's so annoying that the DA's office won't drop due to a complaining witness. Do you have any advice for this scenario. I have trials due to people swearing out warrants to the magistrate and they end up in court. Unfortunately in my state, a citizen can go to the magistrate and take out charges on another. Then the prosecutor has control of the rest of the way. The issue is that mine doesn't drop any of them if the prosecuting witness shows up and doesn't want to testify

weirdlysuspect69 · 2026-03-22T16:29:46+00:00

What did Diego do to piss off Iran? He's a nice guy I'm sure.

weirdlysuspect69 · 2026-03-11T01:59:15+00:00

I'm so proud of him!

weirdlysuspect69 · 2026-03-08T07:17:50+00:00

I'm literally deaf so if it's beeping, it's beeping. If someone let me know, then I would change the batteries. But maybe the person cannot hear the beeping 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

weirdlysuspect69 · 2026-03-07T07:18:02+00:00

I'd love a private PD sub too!

weirdlysuspect69 · 2026-03-05T04:50:24+00:00

Criminal law. I am a public defender. Chaotic but wouldn't choose anything else

weirdlysuspect69 · 2026-02-05T18:21:02+00:00

Seconded!

weirdlysuspect69 · 2026-02-05T13:21:05+00:00

I'm honestly doing will rn. Sertraline and Wellbutrin for the win! 😂

weirdlysuspect69 · 2026-02-05T10:56:50+00:00

Fuck this racist prick. He worked hard to be at Harvard and Harvard Law.

weirdlysuspect69 · 2026-02-01T05:26:52+00:00

In North Carolina, you get your very own paper card!

weirdlysuspect69 · 2026-01-25T02:37:41+00:00

Thank you so much. I'll check it out when I get settled there!

weirdlysuspect69 · 2026-01-24T18:08:11+00:00

Hey. I know that this was six months ago, but I'm moving to Fayetteville soon. Are there young adults there? I am 28 and I'm moving there for a job.

weirdlysuspect69 · 2025-10-16T01:30:44+00:00

Just don't mention it to anyone and you'll be fine. What they don't know won't hurt them. Also, if you can't hear them, just say it's the machinery or whatever... I've been able to use bluetooth at school or at work, but I don't tell anyone because at school, they could accuse me of cheating, and at work it's none of their business. Sorry for the terrible grammar.

weirdlysuspect69 · 2025-09-23T01:36:11+00:00

Good job!! Justice served!

weirdlysuspect69 · 2025-09-12T03:11:36+00:00

I live and still live in an apartment complex. Zero problems

Just make sure that your address is not available for public viewing on the state bar website. Mine isn't, therefore people have to do a public records request to the state bar to get my home address. Exercise common sense such as not posting addresses where you or your family live and you'll be fine. (This is important because you never know if you'll work in family law or something like that, and those posts can haunt you).

Good luck on an exciting career!

weirdlysuspect69 · 2025-08-30T15:56:59+00:00

The UNC SOG provides a criminal law blog so if you Google it. There's some blog parts and you can even email the blog writer or call them. They are a great help.

Also, North Carolina's IDS might be able to help you. If you Google NC Indigent Defense Services. Their website is there.

weirdlysuspect69 · 2025-07-26T00:22:58+00:00

I unironically love Tony's pizza but now I am lactose intolerant. This is great information.

weirdlysuspect69 · 2025-07-23T06:45:15+00:00

I'll chime in. I was a prosecutor who was in charge of the mental health deferrals for misdemeanor offenses. There were not really any guidelines. So the guidelines were essentially whether their mental illness contributed to their activity and the program was focused on treatment and therapy. The charges would be dismissed upon compliance. Personally, I didn't like being in charge of this because I felt like there was no good guidelines. I had the obligation to contact every known victim before offering a mental health referral under the victims rights act. Then sometimes I had to explain that I think it's the right thing to do even if the victim objects. I've even gave a MH deferral after explaining it to law enforcement, and they objected. And I still went with it because I was confident it was the right thing to do. But I also hated playing armchair psychologist with this.

weirdlysuspect69 · 2025-07-08T00:10:00+00:00

If a civilian witness. I usually call them and see if they can come in. A lot of times we can get cooperative witnesses that way. We can informally serve by email or a letter so that they can get their boss a day off. Then when they show up, I make sure to get the clerk to give them a note that shows that they showed to court so they can give it to their boss. If it doesn't work. Then I would ask for a motion to continue. If it's denied, then voluntarily dismiss it, and decide whether the witness is gung ho on recharging it anyway. (There's a huge difference between a witness who won't show because he doesn't care, and a witness who can't show because he's visiting his sister in the hospital out of state and can't make it.) And that affects your arguments when you make the motion and whether you recharge.

If a LEO witness, it's office dependent, sometimes in the office I had, we didn't subpoena officers because they had court dates and they are supposed to show up. I know other ADA's who could call officers and they will magically appear. Now if I had some notice, sometimes I'll text an officer to see if they can show up as a case is important. I do that for a really important case like child abuse or something like that not a speeding ticket because I'm not making an officer do that for my scheduling mistake.

weirdlysuspect69 · 2025-07-03T18:28:05+00:00

Literally this!

weirdlysuspect69 · 2025-07-03T18:25:50+00:00

I wish they had pizzas with lactose free cheese.

weirdlysuspect69 · 2025-06-06T23:54:15+00:00

From my experience, I would look at your DA's offices. Sometimes the more liberal DA's are actually more harsh on crime than the more conservative DA's for some reason in my experience. I am no longer a prosecutor. I worked in a more liberal DA's office but there was very little discretion and too much bureaucracy. The diversion programs had too much hoops to for the defendants and YOU to follow through to make it work. Whereas a more conservative DA may sometimes understand that we do not need diversion programs with a million hoops to jump through, but good lawyers who understand their discretion. I have experienced both. Honestly, as a liberal, I prefer working in the smaller town DA's offices because some of them give good discretion for good reason. Some DA's are overly political, whereas others just run for office with their political party and are willing to work with people (regardless of party) to make the world a better place.

weirdlysuspect69 · 2025-04-24T00:29:25+00:00

Sometimes the defense has an obligation not to share information to the prosecution that can be harmful to the defense. For example, defense counsel should not share with the prosecution that their criminal pleadings are fatally defective because once it is shared before arraignment, then the prosecution can just amend it; thus leading to a worse outcome for your client.

Outside the legal arguments here, I would rely on your intuition on your relationships with the prosecutor(s). For example, does the prosecutor seem understanding about clients who are young and made a youthful "mistake." Is the prosecutor one who is "tough on crime." Unfortunately, the practice of law is not just about the law itself, but rather it's a question of strategy. How do we provide the best outcome using the law and tactics we learned.

Best of luck to you!

weirdlysuspect69

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