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Originally Posted by LakeCleElum
MRM - Just trying to understand this, not argue with you:
So, if a defense attorney sends me (the vicitim) a subponea for a deposiition, I can just ignore it? Does not the defense have the right to full disclosure?
Tell us more about Speeder's father, was he an attorney? Sounds like a great guy....
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Subpoenas are for testimony in a trial, not a deposition. Depositions are part of a civil lawsuit, not a criminal one. Somehow those two are getting confused in this thread.
I have no legal training other than growing up attending some trials. My dad was a criminal defense lawyer, (pretty good one, actually), and then a trial judge for 12 years until he had to retire at 70 per state law. He continued to work for a while as a retired judge, they fill-in when regular judges go on vacation or are sick, etc.
He was an unusual choice for the bench but we had a wacky governor at the time, (NOT Jesse Ventura, a different one), and I guess he liked my dad. It worked out really well for the old man because of the generous retirement including Cadillac health care benefits, poor guy got diagnosed with cancer a month after he retired and was in bad shape for 12 years until he died last Christmas. He was a tough mofo and a character.
When I was 10 years old in 1969, he took me to the jail one Saturday morning during the Hell's Angels conspiracy trial where he was one of the defense lawyers. He had to consult privately with his client, (the VP of the club), so he left me in the cell block with the rest of the bikers in jail. It seems inconceivable to me now but these were different times and of course he knew the jailers well. My uncle, (his brother), was a well known detective in the MPD and there was quite the family dynamic going on with them on opposite sides of the law, so to speak.
I remember him telling the Angels in his gravelly voice, "Watch my kid!", and suddenly I was in a lock-up with them. They were playing peaknuckle or some card game and tried to teach me so that I could join in. I was a little uncomfortable but I knew my dad would never put me in danger. Good times.
Lastly, thank you Mike for the kind words. There is an old joke that everyone on the Internet is tall and handsome but MRM really looks like Cary Grant and a better gentleman you will never meet.
Here is a photo of me with the old man in '69 from the *old family cars* thread:
