Recently I got news that one of my former clients did an extraorinary thing - won a very rare "extraordinary" "writ of prohibition" against a New York State Family Court judge.
A VERY rare thing - and a very procedurally complex thing - done ENTIRELY pro se. VERY PROUD of that person.
Proves that a person unrepresented by an attorney can effectively defend his/her own rights in court - even in very complex cases, and especially in complex cases which attorneys are afraid to touch.
That said, there is a special place in hell for ATTORNEYS who, knowing that a judge is proceeding - especially in a criminal case - without jurisdiction - and when an attorney has been handsomely paid for effective representation of their client, to not even TRY to bring this "extraordinary" writ of prohibition in the Appellate Court to try to STOP the criminal trial since it proceeds without jurisdiction.
For example, recently a reader has sent me some materials (motion papers) in a certain New York criminal case where the defense attorney quite coherently pleads in motion papers that the court had no jurisdiction in that criminal case because of a jurisdictionally deficient indictment.
And yet, when a certain cowardly judge denied that motion, instead of trying to proceed to the Appellate Division with a writ of prohibition before the pending trial, that attorney is trying to pressure the client to accept a plea bargain (with a lot of years in prison) on that same jurisdictionally defective indictment. Figure.
I guess, the attorney wants to keep the handsome amount paid without the tedious necessity to prepare and try the case - and to hell with what happens to the client.
And, I also guess, sometimes it is better to represent yourself than to have such attorneys.
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