Friday, November 30, 2007

From Pets to Pretenders, etc.

Just a few notes today...

* My dog stole and ate my blue tooth headset AGAIN. I have now purchased my third headset, each one progressively higher in quality (and price). Possibly, my dog intuitively knows when I am thinking about getting new gadgets. I'll have to monitor my thoughts or put on a tin foil hat or something.

* In an earlier posting, I mentioned a Judge making an off the record 'joke' about a young teenager to the a Public Defender and District Attorney. The Public Pretender Defender relayed it to the mother with alarm. The mother and three different advocate groups met with the Public Defender to ask her to declare a conflict of interest, get a retrial, etc. The Public Defender apparently reversed her position and decided that it was not a conflict of interest. The fuse has been lit to the powderkeg...

* I'm still getting reports of Social Workers from CPS being involved in, well, childish games, to retaliate against parents demanding their rights be upheld. If those Social Workers just DID THEIR JOBS and spent less time inventing ways to harass the parents and cover their behind, maybe things would go better for everyone involved.

* One of my clients reported that the effects of the psych meds he was forced to take is loss of sexual function and blurred vision. He isn't very happy with the services he received at Oakland's Heritage Psych hospital.

* Another one of my clients had been accused of sexual abuse of his child. CPS reversed its finding to 'unsubstantiated' after months and months of communicating. The case also is in Family Courts and they reportedly refuses to change their 'finding' even thought they initially took the labeling of the father from CPS. So, more fighting on that front.

* The District Attorney's office has a glitch in their computer. Apparently, when listing out charges of assault and or battery, their template automatically adds the penal code requirement that the defendant has to register as a "Sexual Offender" even though there was no sexual assault at all.

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