Rescinding Arrest Warrant - Discussion

[cyjeff]

There is a fair chance that nothing will come of the criminal complaint.

It was stupid and careless but not necessarily criminal.

I haven't looked into the moral clause of a bar exam lately... would this be enough to, um, bar you from the bar exam?

[pdst]

No. I will have to explain everything, but my attorney says that this isn't a big deal. More of a pain b/c I will have to go through the process, but it will not keep me from practicing.
I can take take the test and if there is a character and fitness problem, they won't release the results until that is resolved.

[cyjeff]

Then, and I am being serious, look at it as a positive.

Realize how it feels to be on the OTHER side of that invoice when you help someone with a legal problem.

Remember the feeling that a mistake could ruin your entire life.

Remember feeling the crushing weight when you realize that the law - that nebulous entity that you have learned to respect and love as it surrounds you and protects you and yours from harm - is a loaded gun... that it bites hard when it decides to.

You have a wonderful opportunity here. Look at it as your final exam.

[cyjeff]

Let me give you something to compare this to.

When you finish the naval academy and all your classes, your final exam is actually something called a "middy cruise".

You are placed on a naval vessel in that "in between" state of not being an enlisted person or true officer (you are given a warrant, but that is a weird state) but still fully responsible for your duties... which, most likely, include supervising enlisted men and women with decades of experience in advance of your own.

You can do excellently at the academy and screw up so monumentally on your "snotty cruise" that you will never hold command. You may be discharged from the service.

The idea of this cruise is to try to break the snotties. That's right... to break them. The idea is that it is better to know now the temper of their spirit than find it out later in combat.

This is your middy cruise. You have completed the courses but not yet proven that you are capable of the title of "lawyer". Your actions in and about this proceeding will show your judge and your peers whether or not you have the mettle to deserve the promotion to the ranks of the legal profession.

Yes, it sounds like I have never met a lawyer. I know there are some terrible ones out there.

However, I have also met and worked with lawyers that realize that duty and honor came with the JD. That they have a duty to uphold the laws of the land and the justice they represent.

Be one of those lawyers. Good luck.

[pdst]

I'm so glad I finally went in. When I arrived at the police station, they were shocked.

Anyway, it turned out that my ex lied about the situation as a whole--- basically he said that I was calling him non-stop since June 9th, when I have not attempted to call or email him since that day. He also told them that I had threatened to have family members beat him up.

I didn't even have to go behind the counter. They took my information, erased the complaint, issued me a summons, and told me the judge would throw it out of court. I even talked to the officer who took the report and he said he felt like it was "really stupid and ridiculous....," and that he tried to call me before he took the report.

The service processor came to my job to serve me the RO the same day. I was at lunch, but when I called the campus police, she said the service processor guy said that he felt it was "ridiculous" and that he would not be back to try and serve me the papers.