Although I do appeals, this wasn't one of mine - it was a guy in my ward doing it without an attorney and I've been kind of guiding him through the process. I was in court on another matter and thought I'd walk over to the appellate court to give him a little moral support in his argument.
One case went before his - a criminal appeal. The appellant's attorney (representing the criminal defendant) was Marcia Clark, the lead prosecutor on O.J. Simpson's murder trial. She was actually really good.
It was funny - she was arguing ineffective assistance of counsel -that the defense attorney for the murder suspect failed to support one of his defenses, and she was ticking off some of the defenses that were brought up, but didn't work. She said, "Third party culpability, that was ridiculous. Jury nullification, that's illegal . . ." Then one of the judges interrupted her and said, "but sometimes effective, wouldn't you agree?" She kind of laughed and said, "I know very well jury nullification is sometimes effective."
My little brush with history.
One case went before his - a criminal appeal. The appellant's attorney (representing the criminal defendant) was Marcia Clark, the lead prosecutor on O.J. Simpson's murder trial. She was actually really good.
It was funny - she was arguing ineffective assistance of counsel -that the defense attorney for the murder suspect failed to support one of his defenses, and she was ticking off some of the defenses that were brought up, but didn't work. She said, "Third party culpability, that was ridiculous. Jury nullification, that's illegal . . ." Then one of the judges interrupted her and said, "but sometimes effective, wouldn't you agree?" She kind of laughed and said, "I know very well jury nullification is sometimes effective."
My little brush with history.
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