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Thursday, Feb. 23, 2006 - 5:37 a.m. Good cop, bad cop
I don't like working late. It throws
me all out of whack for the rest of my evening which is pretty structured since
I have lots to do when I get home. I didn't get out of the office last
night til almost 8:00 because we had discovery and production due in a
case. Production and discovery is a process that I actually enjoy because
you really start to get into the meat and bone of the case and learn all the
dirty little secrets from both sides. Questions called Interrogatories are
propounded to both Plaintiff and Defendant, and each side, once receiving theirs,
has 30 days to answer and get those responses back to the other side.
Interrogatories ask basic questions such as "state your name",
"your address," "what claims do you make for the basis of your
suit," "name witnesses to the event that made the basis of your
suit," and so on and so forth. These are limited to 25 questions, but
many times, attorneys create one interrog out of several related
questions. We can object to any question propounded and it is standard
practice to do so. Production requests are requests for copies of
documents and "other tangible things" that support the claim of either
side. In our case, we represent the plaintiffs, two Deputy Sheriffs from a
Texas County who were terminated after reporting a fellow officer for beating up
a handcuffed prisoner. (Yes, we like taking on terminated cop cases
because there are MANY good cops out there trying to do the right thing, and
paying for it with their jobs.) They followed procedure by going up the
chain of command and by referring the incident to an outside investigative
entity, in this case, the Texas Rangers. Both of our clients were told by
the Sheriff to drop the investigation and were both terminated within days of
the beating incident which they reported. The officer that did the beating
was charged and tried in criminal court, but the jury was hung. No word if
he will get another trial. So,
regarding my late night at the office.... it takes quite a bit of time to
get all of these questions answered, and to get documents copied and
produced. We emailed these documents off to our clients a few weeks back,
but they didn't come in to see us to work with us on the answers until this past
Monday. And we had to get them finished and postmarked by yesterday.
It just takes a long time to get each answered as thoroughly and accurately as
possible and with the correct objections to those questions being objected
to. So, we finally finished around 7:45 last night. I didn't get
home til about 8:30, which is past the time I need to have eaten, and pretty
darn close to Travis' bed time. But once I get home, I have to feed
myself, feed Travis one last little snack before bedtime, feed the fur babies,
straighten up the mess left by Tornado Travis, prep my coffee for the next
morning, wash my face and change into my jammies, and whatever else comes
up. I like to be in bed no later than 9:30, but, with my late night, I
didn't get to bed til after 10:00. And I can expect to be working MORE
late nights as Mike has to go to trial on Monday, so we have a flurry of things
to get done for that, and we have two more cases with discovery due in the next
two weeks. A lovely send off for me in that I have so much to do. Song
Virus du Jour: "Somewhere Beyond the Sea" ~ Bobby Darin Useless
Trivia du Jour: See my previous entry.
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