at age 19, I successfully defended myself against an over zealous prosecutor on a double jeopardy charge once. I defended myself successfully in the initial case too. The judge agreed that I was being tried twice for the same offense and dismissed the case. At about the same age, I successfully defended myself against a hunting without a license charge as well. I was shooting cans by a creek. the cop accused me of hunting without a license. I fought him in court and I got the cop to admit that I had no game on my possession and that I was not, at any time, observed hunting by anyone. Case dismissed. I really should have gone to law school. The tree of liberty can go a while longer without watering IMO.
The tree of liberty is shriveling up and dying. The worms that are devouring it can only be stopped by frequent injections of hot lead.
Obviously, that was some time ago when courts and judges had not been brainwashed by the Liberals. Today you would probably be arrested for discharging a firearm on federal property, since they are claiming ownership of all water, streams, rivers,lakes, estuaries, and even ponds built by farmers down to the last mud-puddle.
Yeah, I have had a couple of good cases like that as well.
One involved a speeding ticket I got because the officer, who did not see me speeding, concluded that I must have been based on the extent of the damaged he observed to my car - the trunk got wrapped around a tree when I lost control and spun off an icy road. Asked for supporting deposition, cop told judge what happened, and judge said - “What, are you Sherlock Holmes”? Case dismissed.
Second one was helping out my daughter. Some guy was standing right outside a courthouse to interview defendants coming out for his blog - courthouseconfessions.blogspot.com . So my teenage delinquent daughter, who had done some shoplifting, made yet another big mistake by not only telling this guy that she had done this, but by acting like it was all a joke and that she’d get off with a slap on the wrist and some community service - which naturally was NOT now going to happen after the prosecutor viewed the blog. So I pointed out the fact that the location where this blogger conducted his interviews was still court property, and that by allowing him to stand there, he essentially was being given access in exchange for information the police could use, hence making him an agent of the police, and subject to all the same procedures and rules of evidence that the police must follow. After all, they wouldn’t let me stand in that same spot for my lawyers-caught-nose-picking blog, would they? So the DA, who wasn’t going to make any deal because she thought that blog gave her all she would need, backed down and gave me the deal I wanted, which was a remitter agreement - she stays out of trouble for a year and then her record is expunged.
I also told my daughter it was the last time I’d help her with anything like this - and I’m glad to say, that she turned things around after that.