Classless Lawyers

[*michaelsean*]

(05-07-2016, 10:56 AM)BFritz21 Wrote: Most of this is false.

The owner went to jail for buying the beer and letting us use his car.  As I said, he was let out of the case.

The driver was never punished for drinking before, which I noted to the judge and he ignored, and they had let him drive in the cemetery where we wrecked.  If they had caught him drinking, and punished him (which they didn't, but pretend they did), and the punishments didn't stop him from repeating what he did, then why wouldn't they assume that he'd do it again?  Furthermore, did they tell him not to drive on his own?  Why would they assume that he'd listen about that if he didn't listen about the drinking, especially if they let him drive?

No defects in the road in the cemetery, but it was narrow, dark, tree-filled, and gravestone filled (we clipped a gravestone, which sent us into the 360s), which is why it's supposed to be closed at night because it's dangerous to drive (along with respecting the dead), and that's also why the speed limit is 10 mph (maybe 5).

The caretaker allowed us to drink and provided alcohol to some of the kids that night, most of us at some point, and created the environment where everything was ok and actually encouraged.

So, yes, it was a slam dunk case.

But that's not a wooded area like Highlands Cemetery.

IT'A A CEMETERY. Of course it's filled with gravestones, and unlit with narrow roads. And as you said they have an extremely low speed limit posted, and yet you guys still decided to fly through there fully knowing all these things beforehand, and are upset that the cemetery didn't do a better job of protecting you guts from your stupidity. Despite my conservative rep, I often find myself favoring with plaintiffs fairly often, especially when it involves something they couldn't know about or foresee. This aspect of your case was completely forseeable, and I think the lawyer who you think shouldn't have been paid did a fine job of getting you the money he did. He took $200,000 out of how much?