Advice for working with the District Attorney
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Merrill Gerber
Southern California

We visited two friends last night who happen to be retired district attorneys. We described at length our two dog cases in which the courts failed us -- and they actually had some specific advice. They said that if the police have enough evidence and go so far as to file the complaints with the DA, the injured parties should make an appointment to see the head DA. Our friends said that for a DA to see a real face behind the legal-eze terms of "incident" and "the subjects" is to humanize the situation and give him some sense of the real urgency and importance of the case.

They also said that judges "roll their eyes" when a DA wants to file a case about barking dogs. Judges absolutely have no interest/time/respect for such cases.

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