The old joke goes: what do you call people who represent themselves in court?
The punchline: Losers.
Well, not in this case. Read this story from MSNBC:
Luis Molina is not a lawyer and he has never played one on TV.
But that didn’t stop him from putting on his best suit, marching into a Miami courtroom this month and going up against an attorney with 30 years of experience to stop a foreclosure proceeding against his family’s home. Molina did such a good job of representing himself that the judge in the case thought he was a lawyer and punctuated his ruling in Molina’s favor by tearing up the other side’s motion for summary judgment and throwing it over his shoulder.
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1 Judd Lyon // Jan 29, 2009 at 12:54 am
That’s awesome – especially the emphatic paper-ripping!
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