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1.Did the idea for your tattoo start out as a full back piece or has it just grown along the way?
I knew that I was going to eventually get a full back piece done, but the fish came first. I always knew I'd get the dragon eventually, but I waited until I found someone I really trusted to do a great job. That took me about five more years.
2. Are there law groupies?
Believe it or not, yes. There are definitely criminal law groupies. They hang out at the back door of my office offering to blow the security guards for a chance to meet me. ; ) Seriously, though...I have been at gatherings where I've been cornered by total strangers who want to hear every gruesome detail of the worst case I ever worked on. I usually manage to excuse myself and assure them that they really don't want to hear that sort of thing. There have been a couple of times when someone wouldn't get off it and I let them get a glimpse of the uglier part of my head. But I've found that's a language that doesn't really translate except to the people on the job who know what it's like to have those sorts of things rattling around inside you.
3. Should David Bowie be forgiven for the whole mid-80's, coked up, Let's Dance phase...or should it be seen as part of his evolution as an artist?
I thought he was still in that phase. See? I'm still bitter.
4. How do you do it? How do you find the time?
I don't waste a lot of time and I've always got several things going at once. I work on them piecemeal as I get a spare moment and I somehow manage to accomplish something once in a while.
5. Is it difficult to not want to deliver grevious bodily harm on particularly scummy perps? How do you stop yourself from just going vigilante on them?
There've been a few cases where I couldn't even think up a bad enough ending for the person. As tempting as the idea of "instant justice" might be, I do my damage in the courtroom to those sorts of people. It's the civilized way to hand someone their entrails.
leon_thecleaner:1.Did the idea for your tattoo start out as a full back piece or has it just grown along the way?
I knew that I was going to eventually get a full back piece done, but the fish came first. I always knew I'd get the dragon eventually, but I waited until I found someone I really trusted to do a great job. That took me about five more years.
2. Are there law groupies?
Believe it or not, yes. There are definitely criminal law groupies. They hang out at the back door of my office offering to blow the security guards for a chance to meet me. ; ) Seriously, though...I have been at gatherings where I've been cornered by total strangers who want to hear every gruesome detail of the worst case I ever worked on. I usually manage to excuse myself and assure them that they really don't want to hear that sort of thing. There have been a couple of times when someone wouldn't get off it and I let them get a glimpse of the uglier part of my head. But I've found that's a language that doesn't really translate except to the people on the job who know what it's like to have those sorts of things rattling around inside you.
3. Should David Bowie be forgiven for the whole mid-80's, coked up, Let's Dance phase...or should it be seen as part of his evolution as an artist?
I thought he was still in that phase. See? I'm still bitter.
4. How do you do it? How do you find the time?
I don't waste a lot of time and I've always got several things going at once. I work on them piecemeal as I get a spare moment and I somehow manage to accomplish something once in a while.
5. Is it difficult to not want to deliver grevious bodily harm on particularly scummy perps? How do you stop yourself from just going vigilante on them?
There've been a few cases where I couldn't even think up a bad enough ending for the person. As tempting as the idea of "instant justice" might be, I do my damage in the courtroom to those sorts of people. It's the civilized way to hand someone their entrails.
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...BIG SIGH...as I'm pounding away on a rushed summer school memo.
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The only time I ever use, or hear anyone else use the term "perp" is with child molestors, as a verb.
e.g. "I have a case where a grandpa was perping on his six-year-old granddaughter."
"This kid got perped on by her father."
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not me, I say!
besides...i just like the term "perps"
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are you sitting down??
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and you will watch them, and become one of us.
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You need to copyright that...TOO fabulous.
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Ok, Questions for Cate.....
2)if you could have the answer to one of the great mysteries out there...which one would it be?
3)if you had one day in the history of this planet to undo..what would that day be?
4)silk or steel?
5)Is there anything that could make you give up the law?