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Class parasitus-billfoldius
The Fat New Leech: The Post Conviction
Attorney
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By Dave Perk, Prisoner of War in America
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There is a real bloodsucker attached like a lamprey to
the criminal justice man-eater. It's a whole new species spawned
by the 1987 U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and its name is the Post
Conviction Specialist. Whatever you do when you see the words
post conviction specialist, get out of the water fast!
These particular charlatans prey on people shell shocked after
getting one of these nifty new law sentences. The system of criminal
justice in this country subscribes to the Heinrich Himmler rule
of thumb: punishment must equate to the liquidation of a person,
his family and, of course, his assets. Enter the post conviction
specialist to suck up the scraps and who will-for a hefty fee-look
into your case and then usually tell you all the ways you can
win within a system so stacked against a defendant it might be
laughable were it not so tragic. You mean the cop didn't read
you the Miranda Warning? He had his name tag on upside down?
He called you a nasty name? Maybe there's something here, so
gimme four grand and we'll look into it. One of the ploys the
P.C. attorney uses is to issue flyers with current cases, the
very few defendant favorable cases recently published. It's like
trawling with a long line, all hooks baited. Up swim the fish,
trying to stretch a case over the boulder of his particular circumstance
and they commit the fatal fiscal error of contacting the post
conviction specialist. Most people would be better off by far
hiring a regular attorney to file their appeal or even a Circle
K clerk. If somewhat clued into the law, they ought to do it
themselves: no one knows your case like you do and no one else
cares like you do. Fact is, sportsfans, you aren't getting much
play in this rigged mess anyway, not unless the violations in
your case are so egregious that they embarrass the court. It
takes a lot to embarrass the court because without exception
courts in our country are following the drug war agenda and every
violation possible is a harmless error technicality: the drug
war exception to the Bill of Rights.
Another favorite ploy of the parasitus-billfoldius is to contact
your family members when you aren't looking and ask for another
two grand. They have been known to call your little brother's
school to con him out of his lunch money. It is my experience
that any competent-and let me stress the word competent -- jailhouse
lawyer can carry an argument better than any post conviction
specialist who is not focused on your case, but on the next guy's
wallet, your money already having been safely stashed on Wall
Street. More likely, some paralegal in her office has done the
work, which she might never even see or approve. These people
can really shine you on, make no mistake. We have seen these
so called specialists do some of the shoddiest legal work imaginable
and pull some of the biggest rip offs. Don't let it happen to
you and don't fall for their phony advertising. If you have half
a brain, you can delve into the Sentencing Guidelines yourselves
and if you can't, then find yourself a good jailhouse lawyer.
He might just turn out a lot more special than these pettifogging
tricksters. Jailhouse lawyers work for peanuts, too, and you
can send the rest of that money to your family where it's needed
most.
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