When the Truth Emerges: 36 Lawyers Shocked as Their Clients Unveil Jaw-Dropping Confessions
Announcing in the middle of an appeal procedure (so no big changes can be made to the contents of your permit request) that instead of a finely tuned sewage and waste management infrastructure (that the government believes you have), you just have one big pipe chucking your water in a small stream at the back of your lot is bad.
We had to explain to the client that no, we cant fix this and yes, you should have told us about this from the start and is there anything else you might have not mentioned that you need to tell us about?
Had a major civil rights case in federal court arising from a police shooting where the guy died. Turns out the police had an entire internal investigation file that they didn’t let us know about. That was not fun to explain to the Judge…
Criminal defence (Canada). Talked to a client in cells. Said that she was hanging out at her baby daddy’s and then, as she was leaving, the cops came and harassed her, so she resisted, and that is why she is in jail.
Turns out she was getting aggressive with him and he kept trying to get away from her. He ended up calling the police. *While he was on the phone with the police she starts beating him up.* The police hear this and immediately respond. She was trying to flee the scene after beating her man up while he was on the phone with the cops because he was attempting to passively solve the issue, but she wouldn’t leave. Luckily she has no record, but, man, I felt bamboozled. I learned a healthy dose of skepticism whenever people told me things from there on out.
Ya gotta love it.
My client had a no-contact-order with his ex-girlfriend. He got a call and hang up, dialed *69. It was her; she called the police saying he had violated the no-contact order.
We show up to court and I think I have a pretty good argument on his side. Two police officers walk up to me and look at my client’s name on my case folder when he was in the restroom. When he comes back, they arrest him on an outstanding warrant for armed robbery. I get a continuance for his case. His car gets impounded in the garage. I can’t get him transported from the jail to face his violation of a protection order because that is how the police worked in that city. The public defender takes over his cases. I moved away shortly after that, but that was a very bad day for my client. I stopped putting names on my case files after that so no prosecutor or police officer would be tempted to look through them.
Paralegal for insurance defense. One of my first cases, I was completing discovery with a very young client (barely 18). She claimed the city bus rear ended her when she was slowing to make a turn. Then he got out of the bus yelling at her and screaming expletives. We submitted these responses. We come to find out months later there is actually video on the city bus (of course) of her trying to make an illegal u-turn and ramming herself into the side of the bus. Then SHE got out of the car and started screaming at the bus driver, who stayed silent in his bus. The video also caught her on her phone. Not the smartest person I’ve met.
This isn’t quite as good as the others in this thread, but once I was representing a dude pro bono who was suing the cops for beating the s**t out of him after they had arrested him. He had led them on a high-speed chase through the suburbs, which was already not great, but the rule of law should apply to everyone, and the cops are not allowed to beat the s**t out of you after you’ve been restrained. So a tough case, but whatever, you’re the lawyer, you do what you can.
In one of our first meetings with him, we’re going over that night. I asked if he had had anything to drink, and he admitted that he had: a beer or two around 8pm. The chase was at 2am, and as you should know, alcohol leaves the system at a rate of roughly one drink per hour. So we were probably fine there, and if anything, it was nice to have a client who wasn’t pretending everything was perfect. We move on and talk abut the rest of the night.
Then as we’re wrapping up, our f*****g summer intern of all people goes, “did you do any other substances that night besides alcohol?” And the client’s like, “oh, right, yeah, some m*******a and some c**e.” Dude! You didn’t think that was relevant when we were talking about a couple beers?
The lesson I took there was that the ones who are the most charming are the ones you have to press the most.
OH MAN, ONE I CAN ANSWER!
I used to work in-house for a fast food franchisor, occasionally we would litigate against poor restaurant operators. Restaurants were evaluated with some frequency and operators had a lot of opportunity to fix problems before it ever got to litigation but almost all of our case relied upon the testimony of an individual evaluator assigned to that restaurant and the reports they produced.
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