All that anxiety and build up about going to court? The freaking out about evidence, and testifying, and getting time off work, hell, even what I was going to wear? Yep, all useless.
I spent three dollars at a parking meter four blocks away and I'm in high-heels. I make it all the way to the courthouse, go through security, make it up to the court room, sit and wait on the judge. Then I find out that Mr. Caballero-Galan settled out of court. And no one bothered to let me know. I even checked the website about an hour before I was supposed to be there and it still said "Set for Court".
The prosecutor gave me some little talk about how thankful they are for civilian witnesses because otherwise they couldn't win cases like this one. I would be thankful for any sort of notification that I'm no longer needed.
But they already had my shift covered, so I got the rest of the day off work! I spent it sleeping, naturally.
Sorry you didn't get to testify, that would have been kind of cool. But i'm glad that you got a half-day off of work!
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