Two weeks into the summer job. Feel less like a piece of turd this friday – I am not sure if I have gotten better or simply gotten better at taking abuse. I’m learning the mechanics of keeping people in jail, on probation or perhaps both. Sentencing laws are supposed to be simple. yet in practice, the myriad of exceptions sometimes leads to puzzling results – a fact which when not viewed in context makes the casual observer think that the system is rigged to punish unfairly. I think it is almost as complicated as real life – and Judges seem to do their best to adjust when the limits of legislative wisdom run to their end.
Clearly, television does a poor job of reproducing the blandness of some of the proceedings. Much more often than not, there are very few theatrics. The times that they are, it seems like counsel is just trying to have a Jack McCoy moment – I have never seen anyone try to join in. Alas, the night is still young for me so to speak and we shall see what the rest of the summer brings……
