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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (2646)	11/8/2002 8:51:12 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 6901

>> Lawyers don't even have to bury anyone. << Sure we do. The case that finally charred me into relative impermiability was a custody case, in which the mother insisted that the young daughters had been sexually molested by the father. One of the expert witnesses in the case found the drawings by the daughter to be really troubling, and I did, too. I couldn't believe that a young girl with no knowledge of sexual relations could have drawn them. I won't bore you with the details. I did fight like a demon to keep the children from being with the father, but lost. I should mention that I wasn't her first lawyer. I knew her previous lawyers (and his) and did not think much of them. Eventually, after a very long time (two years) I came to believe that in fact, it was my client who had been sexually molested by her own father when she was young, and that it was she who had made those drawings. This was after the judge finally lost patience with her and took the children away from her and gave them to the father, and only supervised visitation to the mother. I reached this conclusion while fighting with the mother, grandmother, and grandfather about a relatively small amount of money ($2000). Things said and done just did not seem right. I could be wrong, the judge could be wrong, the various mental health professionals could be wrong, and those children could be being put through hell on earth, because I failed them and her. I have no way of knowing. The judge seemed pleased by my representation, because he appointed me to handle a couple of criminal appeals (which I won) but then he retired. But he still ruled against her. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I don't want to talk about the client who committed suicide. He's the reason I quit handling felonies. He pulled a sawed-off shotgun during an argument at a party. No way to get him off, and he killed himself right after the preliminary hearing. He's not the only client who committed suicide, but the only one who did so while I was representing him. Nice boy, his mama loved him. He fell in with the wrong kids. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I guess losing 3000 people would be worse. I just remember, plain as day, the little girls who did not want to go live with their father.