Things do go right sometimes. Today, I had a criminal case and all I wanted to do was get my client first offender treatment so he wouldn't have a felony record on him after he finished his probation. The problem arose when we found out who the judge was who was going to preside on his case: Judge Johnnie Caldwell, Jr. Johnnie, the district attorney when I was a young lawyer, was rather hardnosed, prosecutorial and didn't ordinarily give first offender treatment on such a case.
I felt that our possibility of keeping this conviction off my client's record was very slight. However, when the assistant district attorney and I approached the bench, Judge Caldwell agreed to give my client first offender treatment because "it was me." That felt good and everybody was happy in the end. Sometimes it feels good to be an attorney and work something out for your client. All the stress is gone and everybody is happy with me.
The old man does ok from time to time.
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