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> I came in with a some fancy Austin lawyer to Brownwood, TX and they all but laughed us out of the courtroom. Can you expand on this?

• lazide 2y ago
  Small towns are run more like dictatorships than democratic institutions. The smaller it is, the more true it is.
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  • 77pt77 2y ago
    I know, but I wanted details in this specific example.
    • beepbooptheory 2y ago
      I never did a full trial, but my lawyer really wanted to do some kind of pre-trial appeal thing after hearing the nature of my stop (forget exactly what it was called, I believe it was a Texas specific process though). I was pulled over because I passed an officer going the speed limit of 65-70mph. He was stopped on the other side of the road, I passed at that speed, and he immediately started to pull me over because he said he "didn't think my seatbelt was on". My lawyer made a very good case that it would be somewhat impossible for him to see one way or another, using pictures of where I passed, as well the model of my car. Because it wasn't a trial, there was no jury, it was just the judge's call. I remember feeling so hopeful after we went to court because our argument seemed good and we barely heard anything from the DA to counter it. But it was still denied. My lawyer really wanted to go to trial after that, but I was too scared at that point.