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What is the name of your state? California
My boyfriend may be pro se starting tomorrow in court. He and his appointed attorney have had three Marsden motions since they just see things way too different. His attorney, for one, doesn't see any problem with the little girl talking about being beaten by her mom with the bruises to show it. The attorney says it's normal!
(My bf sold his house to pay for his past attorney, and money still just ran out.)
Anyway, we (yes, we, since I am right there helping my boyfriend with everything) filed a recusal and some other documents, and the Judicial Counsel decided to allow the judge to stay on the case. We found out that there is a good chance that the judge will allow the attorney to substitute pro se since attorneys must offer some substitution to be relieved of a case. My bf found that law and the form for it.
However, we would both like to know if I could assist him if he goes pro se. Asside from research, would I be allowed to be up there with him as an assistant is to an attorney? Obviously I'm not paid in any way, so it's not practicing law without a license.
My bf is so emotionally involved in this case because his daughter is at risk. Presently the little girl is living with two people found guilty already of molesting her, people the child has said on forensic CAC tapes give her medicine that makes her sick, and we have ER records that show her having been given a high amount of Vicodin and METH, and the mother has already said on the stand that the child is "healthy" so that there isn't a problem with any of this. My bf can get muddle-headed when he starts to get upset. And I'm sure you would if you knew your 5-year-old had lived the last two years with child molesters and you didn't even get visitation because the courts consider you a danger for not getting treatment for a disease. A disease you have already PROVEN you DON'T HAVE!!
So all of you out there, please don't flame either of us for wanting to know if I can assist in court. If your answer is to tell me he should "be an adult" and "do it himself," keep it to yourself since, chances are, you have never lived in the kind of terror for your child that he lives in every single day, terror that he could get a phone call any time saying his daughter is dead from the latest round of drugs.
If I can assist him, and if you know it, please let me know the code. Thanks so much.
My boyfriend may be pro se starting tomorrow in court. He and his appointed attorney have had three Marsden motions since they just see things way too different. His attorney, for one, doesn't see any problem with the little girl talking about being beaten by her mom with the bruises to show it. The attorney says it's normal!
(My bf sold his house to pay for his past attorney, and money still just ran out.)
Anyway, we (yes, we, since I am right there helping my boyfriend with everything) filed a recusal and some other documents, and the Judicial Counsel decided to allow the judge to stay on the case. We found out that there is a good chance that the judge will allow the attorney to substitute pro se since attorneys must offer some substitution to be relieved of a case. My bf found that law and the form for it.
However, we would both like to know if I could assist him if he goes pro se. Asside from research, would I be allowed to be up there with him as an assistant is to an attorney? Obviously I'm not paid in any way, so it's not practicing law without a license.
My bf is so emotionally involved in this case because his daughter is at risk. Presently the little girl is living with two people found guilty already of molesting her, people the child has said on forensic CAC tapes give her medicine that makes her sick, and we have ER records that show her having been given a high amount of Vicodin and METH, and the mother has already said on the stand that the child is "healthy" so that there isn't a problem with any of this. My bf can get muddle-headed when he starts to get upset. And I'm sure you would if you knew your 5-year-old had lived the last two years with child molesters and you didn't even get visitation because the courts consider you a danger for not getting treatment for a disease. A disease you have already PROVEN you DON'T HAVE!!
So all of you out there, please don't flame either of us for wanting to know if I can assist in court. If your answer is to tell me he should "be an adult" and "do it himself," keep it to yourself since, chances are, you have never lived in the kind of terror for your child that he lives in every single day, terror that he could get a phone call any time saying his daughter is dead from the latest round of drugs.
If I can assist him, and if you know it, please let me know the code. Thanks so much.