[Husker] Of liars, cheats and other major college coaches

[Kathy Jackson]

I agree that lawyers should know about these option for folks that have made one mistake and seem unlikely to be headed down a road of crime.  It saves the person from having a felony on their record, it saves the judicial system money, and the injured party is no worse off - they can still claim on the drivers insurance or pursue a civil case if I am not mistaken.

Working with young folks I have seen many of them do stupid things, things for which jail was possible.  I am glad that judges can use some discretion.  Some of the kids I am thinking of did diversion, stop class, probation, community service, or some combination of these.  I know that the majority also understood they had made a dumb choice and learned from it.  Hopefully that will be the case here.

Kathy Jackson
On Dec 3, 2011, at 9:30 AM, Tony Lambert wrote:

> I posted similar thoughts last night, but the post didn't come through for some reason. Anyway what I said was that the lawyer isn't a very good lawyer if he didn't know about the different programs. I had a family member that had legal  issues and between the lawyer and the councilor they had all the programs covered.
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> Tony Lambert
> -----Original Message----- From: Steve Reichenbach
> Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2011 9:19 AM
> To: mikejaixen at yahoo.com ; nickchevance at gmail.com ; nolan at tssi.com
> Cc: husker at tssi.com
> Subject: Re: [Husker] Of liars, cheats and other major college coaches
> 
> That attorney was more creative getting free publicity than he apparently
> was in serving his past clients.  Of course, the circumstances for Cook
> were about as mild as could be for leaving the scene --- stopped within
> minutes and called 911, no drugs or alcohol, nor criminal record, minor,
> appears to be a responsible student with responsible parents, etc.  If
> this attorney had similar clients in the past and didn't try for diversion
> he "ain't too good of a lawyer" --- maybe he should think about a career
> in PR.
> 
>> So did the World-Herald... in a big front-page article. Even talked
>> to a defense attorney who wishes he would have tried it with his
>> clients.
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