“Body? What body?”

Aside from the money and fame, one wonders what drives some people to become Defense Attorneys.

I can’t get out of my mind the case a few years ago of the Defense Attorney who pled his client “Not Guilty” of murdering his wife, after the body was found: In a freezer, in a motorhome that had been attached to his home by electrical connection for two years.

Well, today’s NC Times article about a traffic accident that killed one man and injured five more motorists, may match that.

“In her closing argument in the trial of Anthony Guarino, 57, Deputy District Attorney Chandelle Konstanzer said the defendant admitted he was impaired when he left a bar in National City, where he consumed 11 shots of whiskey before driving to North County.

…Defense attorney Brad Patton told the jury that Guarino should be found not guilty because he was unconscious when he slammed into the back of Durham’s car.”

http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/rancho-bernardo/article_174ba38c-3aa6-5a43-b099-ead758decc8a.html

There are professions where success simply depends upon the ability of the professional to keep a straight face…

Filed Under: It is the 900# Gorilla in the Room…

 

“In 2002, Los Angeles taxpayers contributed just under $100 million to the Los Angeles City Employees’ Retirement System, and it was fully funded. Today, that taxpayer contribution is more than $400 million, and the system is underfunded by more than $2.3 billion.”

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-fritz-pension-reform-20110118,0,7987400.story