Help Your Lawyer

You finally get to see your GOOD lawyer that HONESTLY HATES THE CPS with every fiber of his being and even willing to be DISBARRED fighting the corruption!   

(If you have a shyster who just talks you into a plea bargain, in spite of your INNOCENCE, you might as well GIVE UP NOW and put your furniture in a yard sale.  You are HIGHLY UNLIKELY to get anything but a Kangaroo Court). 

You've been DESPERATE to talk with him/her.  After all, they only have YOUR LIFE, FUTURE, and the FUTURE OF YOUR CHILDREN in his/her hands!

So you tell the lawyer all your life's history and try to "get him/ her up to speed" as quickly as possible.  After a half hour recitation, you finally "wind down", now satisfied that you have completely informed your "gladiator" of EVERYTHING HE NEEDS TO KNOW to "save your bacon".

Well, not exactly.  Just because YOU KNOW your life story by heart, doesn't mean that he/ she now knows it by heart.  In fact, most people have really SHORT attention spans.  Lawyers, by trade have longer attention spans.  But what was he/ she doing this morning?  Who were they just talking with before they talked with you?  Perhaps the lawyer is still thinking about some other case that is troubling to them.  Of course, since you ARE NOT THEIR ONLY CLIENT, they are going to talk with people after YOU LEAVE.

So HOW MUCH of what YOU TOLD him/ her do you really think they are GOING TO REMEMBER next week?  Don't kid yourself.  Lawyers are NOT super-human.

If you really expect a GOOD DEFENSE, you have to help your lawyer.  

YOU, and ONLY YOU can construct a correct HISTORY of the events.  Hopefully, you have been keeping a NOTEBOOK of your meetings with the CPS people.  You absolutely HAVE TO be able to account for-

WHO SAID: WHAT- WHEN- WHERE- HOW- WHY- TO WHOM?

Since WE ALREADY KNOW that CPS people are "creative" in their record- keeping, accounts, and VERSION of events, it behooves us to do OUR OWN record- keeping, accounting, and produce OUR VERSION of events.

In a WAR OF WORDS (and that is exactly what this is), YOUR WORD is as GOOD as THEIRS in dated, WRITTEN SWORN AFFIDAVITS.  (This comes in REALLY HANDY when it's TIME TO FILE YOUR GRIEVANCE or APPEAL).

If you don't have any notes, statements, chronology of events, your lawyer doesn't have much to work with.  He/ she might have scribbled down some notes during your VERBAL interviews.  But he/ she is hardly likely to have time to spend constructing much.  He/she needs EVERY POINT on hand to refer to quickly when it is required.

Depending on WHAT KIND of accusation the CPS has made, you SHOULD make EVERY EFFORT to research the issue(s) yourself.  Since you are reading this, obviously you are trying to do exactly that.

Now, RULE NUMBER ONE

You have a LAWYER.  You are DONE TALKING with people from the CPS.  Direct them to TALK TO YOUR LAWYER, and send their bogus threatening phone calls, personal visits, and COPIES OF letters TO HIM/ HER! (Make SURE YOUR LAWYER IS WORKING FOR YOU!  You also want COPIES OF LETTERS he/she sends to the CPS)  If you are "checking up" on them, they might be more likely to "stay on-task".  You DO NOT WANT your lawyer "dropping the ball"!

Before you DO ANYTHING- ask your lawyer FIRST!  Say ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to anybody, ESPECIALLY to CPS "mental health clinicians" or other "Credentialed Contractors" for CPS.  They exist only to fabricate a case against you.