What a day it has been so far. Actually, the day started really early. About midnight last night, the electricity went off as I was reading one of the really long posting in the Showcase for this week. It seems the thunderstorm finally hit town that we were watching for all night last night. I had an early appointment to meet a client so that we could go to Ft. Worth this morning to get the judge to set aside a warrant for her after she and I missed her court date on May 29th. I was never notified of such, and although she had gotten her notice, did not inform me of such, and was in the middle final tests. She is 17 and is an Honor Society student in High School. I will not tell you what stupid thing she did that landed her in court.
Anyway, as it was about time for me to go to bed anyway, I reset all the clocks, which did not take long. As I said, it was almost right at midnight, so they were flashing at midnight, and all I had to do was put 10 minutes to get them right. I guess I had finished setting every clock when all of sudden the electricity flashed off one more time. OK, so how many times is this going to happen. Yeah, so now I was worried that I was going to oversleep, so no way was I ever going to do so now. So, for the second time this week, I have gone all night without sleeping.
Anyway, after the 75 minute to Ft. Worth, it took about 15 minutes to explain to the judge why we both missed the court date. He actually was very patient, and very nice once he discovered why I had not gotten the notice. It seems that when I very first got my law license and was still working at my former job as the dock manager at an air freight company at DFW Airport, I had assisted one of my co-workers to change his name back to the name his family used prior to immigrating to the US. Ft. Worth put me into their computer system. When I sent them notice that I was representing my current client, I was already in their system and they did not check the address on my letter against the information in their system and they had been sending notices to an apartment I lived in over 15 years ago. The judge quickly recalled the warrant and said that I should get the notice for the next court date. My client was so relieved. The local sheriff department had already picked up on the warrant and went by her house last night. Thankfully her mother was really close to few of the deputies and was able to explain that she had already been in touch with me, and that we were going up to Ft. Worth this morning to take care of the situation. As it was, they actually followed her this morning to make sure she met with me as she has told them. I suspect that if they found out such was untrue, my client would be in the notClark County Jail. As it is now, she is still free on bond.
I am glad that we were successful, but now I am really sleepy.
Posted by Tiger at June 4, 2003 11:49 AM