Attorney Who Sang Closing Argument Barred
Apparently a public defender in Bettendorf, Iowa got canned for SINGING her closing arguments. This sounds like an Ally McBeal plot.
Update: Kris at Random Mentality references the same story, but with more details, from the Register:
Singing public defender barred
Details, for your amusement:
According to records from the public defender's office, district associate judges Douglas McDonald and Mary Howe told state Public Defender Thomas Becker that, in their opinion, Machetta was incompetent. In a letter to Becker, McDonald said one defendant asked that Machetta be removed from his case because she was "nuts."
McDonald also alleged that one day last year Machetta complained to court bailiffs that her car had been stolen from the courthouse parking lot when, in fact, she had simply forgotten where she parked. Later that same day, she appeared to be unable to find Juvenile Court, where she had been practicing for two years, McDonald alleged.
Howe alleged that Machetta talked out loud to herself in the courtroom while cases were in progress. During one court hearing, Howe said, Machetta asked if she could sing "Looking For Love (In All The Wrong Places)."
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