canadiandiamond

So glad this past weekend was a long one because today was so emotionally draining it wasn't even funny. Day Two of the trial wasn't bad, it actually went rather well, but I received an unfavourable decision in another criminal matter at 9:30am before the trial continued that just knocked the wind out of me and I never did get it back. I can't get into the reasons why here, but yeah, it's going to have a lasting effect, sadly. Then there was a really tough bail hearing we had to wait for (it bumped us as the accused was arrested last night and has to be brought before a judge within 24 hours so it couldn't wait) which featured a very sympathetic and very, very upset mother taking the stand on the accused's behalf, but to no avail, which... all the lawyers there pretty much knew that it was a lost cause, but yeah, still rough to watch. And it cut a major chunk out of our afternoon, having started at 1:30 and continuing on until 3:15, and we had to stop at 4-ish so we got less than an hour in this afternoon. >.< Tomorrow we have the whole day slated again (like today) but there's some civil matters at 9:30am first. Our court is so, so, so overtaxed, there's not time at all - while talking about possible dates to continue our matter today (we will need it, especially with interruptions like we had today) the clerk mentioned a date in effing September. September. At this rate my client may very well likely have spent whatever he will be sentenced to before the trial's over and may just get time served. x.x

But yes, just wanted to vent a little. It was a rough day and there's a lot of other courtwork waiting for me at the end of the week, too, that I'm just not going to have time to prep for, or at least not as much as I want. Rar. Here's hoping we get a lot done tomorrow at least.