I just took on a 17 count child sex case. I can’t figure my client out, he doesn’t really talk about the actual case, but spends our precious lawyer visit time talking about nonesense. “like what” you ask. I don’t know!! He just talks and talks and talks about nothing! Absolutely nothing. Anyway, this guy is charged with like 10 violent felony counts for anally raping his kids. We’ve hired an investigator and are really going to go at this full throttle. We’ve given the investigator a two page long list of what we need him to do on the major charges. In addition to the 10 big ole counts that’ll get him in the clink for life, he’s got a bunch of misdemeanor charges. One of these alleges that he showed his kids a pornographic video. Today, I get an e-mail from his sister asking me if I’ve had the investigator get in touch with the guy who gave her brother the porn video to prove that there is no way the kids could have seen it. This is really the least of our worries in this case. The guy is looking at 50 years in state prison if he’s convicted of even just two of the felony counts, and his family is worried about the count of the indictment that wouldn’t even be a blip on the radar. It’s hard to tell family members that the things that consider important really aren’t very important at all. In fact, we’d probably get a lot more done if family members would try to help a little bit less.