I was in court a couple of times in the last two weeks. I wore respectable work-type clothes.<\/p>\n
What I didn’t wear was: a Thomas Jefferson costume. I never even thought of a Thomas Jefferson costume. Maybe I would have thought of a Sally Hemings gown, if I’d thought at all about dressing as if this were the very early 19th century.<\/p>\n
But I didn’t. Yet this lawyer did: Court Unconvinced by Lawyer Dressed as Thomas Jefferson – Lowering the Bar<\/a>.<\/p>\n The story is even crazier than the costume, since the lawyer had, very poorly, represented a client in a death penalty case and had failed utterly. You’ll want to read his statement about his representation because you’ll never hear it again from a lawyer’s lips:<\/p>\n Despite my knowledge that the jury had found my client guilty beyond a reasonable\u00a0doubt of double murder, I told the jury I thought the killer should be executed for the\u00a0crimes. This argument was clearly prejudicial to my client, who the jury believed, as\u00a0evidenced by their verdict, was the killer<\/em>.<\/p>\n Kevin Underhill previously reported this story in Lowering the Bar and provides the link. This report is the final decision to disbar Tom J., oops, I mean Dennis Hawver.<\/p>\n What a relief!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was in court a couple of times in the last two weeks. I wore respectable work-type clothes. What I didn’t wear was: a Thomas Jefferson costume. I never even thought of a Thomas Jefferson costume. Maybe I would have … Continue reading