"Who says they don't have their priorities straight?" joke
Excerpted from the book "Dumb, Dumber, Dumbest," (c) 1996 by John J Kohut and Roland Sweet
While defending a man in D.C. Superior Court accused of beating his girlfriend's 12-year-old daughter, a Washington attorney announced after three days that he was withdrawing from the case.
He explained that he had expected the trial to proceed in a more timely manner and had purchased nonrefundable airline tickets for a vacation.
"It's manifestly necessary in my view that you continue the defense of your client," the judge told the attorney. When this plea failed, the judge threatened to hold him in custody to assure his presence in the courtroom.
The attorney warned that such a move would only harm his client. "I mean, I'll just be extremely hostile to the defendant. I'm just going to be totally hostile, totally hostile," he told the judge, who was forced to declare a mistrial.
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