drainbead78

So I'm a defense attorney in Ohio and I recognized a name of a prosecutor in your story. Would you be willing to share which jurisdictions in Ohio you know have participated in this training program? It's critical that the defense bar is made aware of this immediately. I've never had these tactics used in any of my cases, and I never knew this was a thing at all, despite having attended dozens of hours of forensic analysis seminars in my two decades of practice. But based on the name I saw in there, it seems like at least one prosecutor in my county has bought into this trash.

Reading this made me want to vomit. Thank you for bringing it to light. You're a hero.

I'm assuming you're in Ohio, based on the terminology you're using. PM me--I'm curious.

Source: Juvenile PD in Ohio.

Does the fact that exculpatory evidence was not turned over in discovery matter?

I've represented a few innocent clients, but the one who sticks with me was a kid who I got out on bond because the judge thought the evidence was weak. (It statrted out in juvenile court, and all the judge needed to do was find probable cause to have the case sent to adult court, which she did, but she felt there would be significant issues with proving the case BRD, so she set a bond the family could pay.)

The prosecutors proceeded to request a bond modification, but specifically waited until the following week to do it so they would have a better judge draw. That mistake, once they discovered at trial that their sole piece of evidence against my client was a result of a miscommunication between two crime lab employees, ended up costing the kid 19 months of his life and the county a million dollars.

That's GenX. The "sandwich generation" describes the general age between 30-50 or so when people are taking care of both their children and their aging parents. It's not meant to apply to any one generation, it just so happens that it applies mostly to GenX (but also to early Millennials) right now.

https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2013/01/30/the-sandwich-generation/

I always wonder how many of the health care providers actually end up getting sick and dying during outbreaks like this. Did any of your colleagues end up getting Ebola when you were working? If so, what happened?