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Recently, Redditor u/LordofDiacord asked the lawyers of the Reddit assemblage to stock the "dumbest" happening that either won oregon lost them a case, and immoderate of these stories are astir excessively bully to beryllium believable. Here are immoderate of the astir bewildering cases:
1. "I had a lawsuit who was facing a termination of parental rights lawsuit who called maine the time of the proceedings to archer maine she couldn't marque it to tribunal due to the fact that her existent fellow had amazed her with tickets to the Caribbean. She really told maine to telephone her aft the proceedings and fto her cognize however it went. Spoiler alert: it did not spell well."
2. "I was erstwhile prosecuting a misdemeanor elemental battle case. The suspect got up, and the archetypal words retired of her rima were, 'Yes, I deed her due to the fact that she made maine mad.' I fto her speech for a while, past rested my case."
3. "In 1 of my archetypal nationalist defender cases, I was representing the sweetest, tiny 4'10" woman for a felony transgression demolition of spot case. She gave the emblematic 'it wasn't me' excuses, but arsenic a newbie, I afloat believed her. We stood connected business, and astatine the pre-trial league with the prosecutor, I told him we were taking this 1 to trial. He laughed; I should person known. On the mode retired the door, helium said to me, 'Oh, I astir forgot, bash you privation the video? I person it present and tin conscionable transportation it to you connected a USB and debar discovery.' While looking astatine my client, I asked the prosecutor, 'Video?'"
"We watched it together. My lawsuit was wearing the aforesaid formal she wore to court. We did not spell to trial. I got her 7 months successful region and a downgrade to a misdemeanor. She lone did 3 months due to the fact that she got an aboriginal merchandise erstwhile she recovered retired she was pregnant. She was an awesome idiosyncratic who made an affectional mistake, and I genuinely anticipation she's doing better. For what it's worth, I ne'er noticed her sanction successful the lawsuit excavation again — dissimilar respective of my repetition customers."
4. "I had a lawsuit who was charged with illegally camping connected nationalist onshore (aka being stateless successful public). I moved for a dismissal astatine the archetypal quality based connected a deficiency of probable cause. The municipal codification defined camping arsenic 'sleeping outdoors betwixt 9 p.m. and 7 a.m.' I pointed retired that the constabulary citation showed that they ticked my lawsuit astatine 8:30 p.m."
5. "I had a lawsuit erstwhile I was moving successful the session astatine instrumentality schoolhouse who had stolen pills from a hospital. The DA sent maine the information camera footage. It was legit her: she was 10 feet distant from the camera, looking around, and shoveling pills into her pocket. I asked my prof however to attack it, and helium suggested showing her the video. I did that, and her effect was, 'So, bash you deliberation I person a case?' She ended up magically uncovering wealth for a non-public defender and fired me. She ended up getting a fewer years successful jail."
6. "No 1 noticed that the day stamp connected our expert's video of the occurrence country did not lucifer the day helium said he'd been determination investigating."
7. "I was a nationalist defender successful my archetypal felony trial. It progressive meth trafficking, wherever they had the full speech caught connected video — including my client's (alleged) look and his licence plate, since the speech took spot successful his car. When helium was arrested the adjacent day, helium inactive had the marked bills successful his wallet. All I could reason was tenable doubt; 'probably' wasn't enough. He was facing 20 years due to the fact that of his record. After astir 10 minutes out, the assemblage came backmost and asked if they could spot my client's teeth. In the video, helium had a atrocious lawsuit of meth mouth, but helium had not testified, truthful the assemblage ne'er got a accidental to look successful his rima successful person. The justice apologized and said the impervious was closed. The assemblage came backmost with a 'not guilty' verdict 5 minutes later."
"I spoke to the foreman after, and helium said that the assemblage was definite it was him, but his teeth were truthful distinctive that they wanted to spot them to beryllium perfectly certain. I asked, 'What astir the licence sheet and marked bills?' His brow furrowed, and helium said, 'That really didn't travel up backmost there...but, yeah, I conjecture it was decidedly him. Should we archer the judge?' I said, 'Uh, it's excessively late, it's over.'"
8. "A juror told maine that my unfortunate didn't dependable 'sufficiently scared' connected his 911 call."
9. "I had a reasonably elemental battle lawsuit trial. A idiosyncratic who was stateless was told to permission by information and was ushered away. The feline got upset and deed the information guard. We had immoderate cellphone footage that showed this, but ultimately, the cardinal infinitesimal wasn't clear, and it could person been argued that the information defender had touched him first. The defence counsel asked the suspect a fewer questions, past went successful beforehand of the assemblage and asked him to fundamentally presumption her wherever the information defender was, and reenact what had happened. The defence counsel and the suspect agreed that she should basal an arm's magnitude distant and point. She past asked what happened next. My dude looked close astatine her and slugged her close successful the mouth."
"It wasn't a 'gentle' reenactment tap, but it was similar helium was trying to sound her out. Her articulator was bleeding, and she looked shocked, similar she was afloat unprepared for it. The justice asked maine if determination was immoderate cross. 'Uh, conscionable briefly. Sir, conscionable to confirm, you deed the information defender conscionable similar that?' 'Yes.' 'Up until that time, did the information defender ever interaction you?' 'No.' I didn't adjacent get retired of the courthouse parking batch earlier I got called backmost for the verdict."
10. "My lawsuit went connected proceedings for enactment work. She required a Vietnamese interpreter. When it was clip for the bull to ID the defendant, helium pointed close astatine the interpreter. The question to disregard was instantly granted."
11. "The different enactment was hiding assets, said they couldn't work, and refused to disclose their address. We had an inkling wherever they might've been. I looked astatine Google Street View successful a agrarian area, and a Google car conscionable happened to beryllium taking updated photos astatine the close time, and showed the different enactment astatine the code with the hidden assets and undertaking work. You can't opt retired of a integer life."
12. "Let's conscionable accidental that erstwhile my lawsuit (on the stand) said of the plaintiff, 'I hatred that fucking guy,' things decidedly took a crook for the worse."
13. "It was a class-action information breach case. We were suing a institution that had accidentally emailed retired thousands of their customers' accusation to a radical of scammers. It was ridiculous negligence and a implicit disregard of adjacent the astir barebones information extortion scheme. They were a clump of arrogant, affluent assholes. Now, owed to immoderate procedural weirdness, we had to beryllium that our people typical specifically had monetary damages arsenic a effect of the information breach, which would usually beryllium a immense occupation due to the fact that existent provable damages arsenic a effect of a information breach are highly rare. But we had a people typical who was beauteous unusual: helium had gotten the boilerplate announcement of information breach and had perfectly freaked retired astir it. He had panic attacks and aesculapian problems and mislaid his job. So, successful a one-in-a-million situation, we had an accidental to really clasp these radical accountable for damaging the full people of tens of thousands of people."
"The defendants got our rep's worker record successful find and recovered that helium had been fired for a 3rd onslaught of missing work. But they wanted to amusement that helium had skipped enactment for his daughter's schoolhouse tract trip, which had been the origin of his 2nd strike. So, we showed up to a proceeding with an simple schoolhouse tract travel schedule, which allowed america to retrieve millions of dollars for the class."
14. "Once, a lawsuit brought a PowerPoint titled, 'Why I'm Innocent' successful Comic Sans. Somehow, the assemblage inactive bought it. Honestly, I deliberation the font did fractional the work."
15. "While shadowing a lawyer connected a pro bono lawsuit arsenic portion of my studies, I sat down with him and his lawsuit earlier the trial, which was astir the lawsuit allegedly having dealt drugs to minors. The lawyer told him 10 times: 'When you don't person to answer, don't answer. Do not speech astir thing regarding dealing drugs. When not spoken to directly, bash not adjacent deliberation astir opening your rima and saying anything.' Ten minutes into the trial, the justice said thing astir the suspect being accused of dealing drugs, and the lawsuit conscionable straight-up said, 'Yes, I did it, but I don't bash it anymore.' It was a alternatively abbreviated proceedings aft that."
16. "I did a pro bono lawsuit to correspond immoderate dipshit who had acceptable occurrence to her balcony by dumping retired the ashes from her charcoal grill that she wasn't allowed to person connected the balcony successful the archetypal place. Her defence was that idiosyncratic indispensable person walked up connected her balcony and acceptable occurrence to it, and that it was conscionable a coincidence that she had dumped her ashes there. She got huffy that we mislaid and told maine she was gladsome she didn't person to wage maine due to the fact that I was 'incompetent.' Thanks."
17. Lastly: "I was progressive successful an wholly mean paternity lawsuit wherever a pistillate had a babe and filed for paternity. The feline disputed it and said helium wasn't the father, truthful the tribunal ordered a modular paternity test. The trial effect said helium wasn't the begetter of the baby, but surprisingly, it besides excluded the mother. After a batch of discussion, we benignant of heard disconnected the grounds that the parent astir apt 'borrowed' idiosyncratic else's babe to marque a kid enactment claim. Apparently, she didn't recognize that erstwhile a tribunal orders a DNA test, they usually trial the parent against the babe arsenic well."
Well, I person a headache now. If you're a lawyer, what was the dumbest oregon wildest happening that either made you triumph oregon suffer a trial? Let america cognize successful the comments, oregon you tin anonymously taxable your communicative utilizing the signifier below.
Note: Some stories person been edited for magnitude and/or clarity.
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