What do you call the person who graduated at the bottom of his law school class? "Your Honor".
Not in Pima County. They passed an initiative that non lawyers could be judges.
So the answer now is: "What do you call a state senator who has maxed out his/her time but wants to continue sucking on the public tit?" "Your honor, I am trying very hard to explain this law to you while remaining polite, and I might add that a two year degree in criminal justice at one of the WORST community colleges in the state does NOT qualify you to be a lawyer."
OMG, my son's the last one, she was TERRIFYING. She mixed up her files and was calling the dude before "My son's name" and I was scared MY kid would get sentenced for the other person's crimes. EVERYONE corrected her until finally the court stenographer muttered, "I am going off record for a moment," and literally GRABBED the files out of her hand, and said "THIS is the person you are talking too."
It was pretty epic. The state wanted to dismiss the case "with prejudice" which meant if my son got in trouble ever again, well, EVERYTHIG would have come back up." My lawyer was having a fit because the prosecutor was changed at the last minute but he had already worked out a deal, which they reneged on. She ended up dismissing it without prejudice but I'm sort of sure she didn't know the difference but I was glaring at her with my laser eyes, beaming this thought: "YOU MIXED UP THE CASE FILES. IF YOU DO not DO what is best for my SON I AM TAKING you higher up the FOOD CHAIN and in front of an ACTUAL JUDGE and suing you for INCOMPETENCE."
I can get pretty ...... off. Anyway I suppose it was a sort of sweet and in some ways amusing---
No. IT wasn't. TO BE A JUDGE YOU NEED A LAW DEGREE.
Anna