The California Highway Patrol has plenty of critics, and a crop of new young officers has appeared in Mendocino County, who, these critics say, are writing tickets for all kinds of things that older officers ignore.
A just concluded jury trial for a young man accused of driving while under the influence of marijuana reinforced a general suspicion that over-zealousness is in play around here.
How bad was this case?
It was so bad that the newest, and youngest, and shyest, and smallest counselor in the Public Defender’s office where body types run from squat-diminutive to hulking, won the case — her first jury trial, ever — against the DA’s biggest, baddest courtroom brawler, Joshua Rosenfeld, who has now lost his first DUI case.
Introducing Miss Christine Brady.
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