Usually, this pisses off a judge.
“Hunter Biden was a no-show for an Arkansas court hearing Monday in the paternity case against him – as his lawyers unexpectedly filed papers saying they’d been fired”
I’ll say!!
Let one of us try that.
I’d say that’s true 99.999% of the time. The 3 or 4 times I’ve ever been in court for a traffic ticket, one offense I’ve seen that really gets under a judge’s skin is failure-to-appear.