On top of everything that’s going wrong to delay me, I wrote out this big entry about it and instead of publishing it, the browser went to “site not found” and LOST THE ENTRY! DAMN IT.

I badly need to leave work early today to rush home, feed/water my cat for the weekend, grab my luggage, and dash through massive traffic to Dwaine’s house so he could get us both to the airport on time this evening. Dwaine had spontaneously decided to go to Arizona for the weekend, and his flight leaves 45 mins after mine. The civil trial we have going on right now was supposed to be done by noon today, so things were supposed to line up perfectly.

So of course that’s not what happens. Our sentencing this morning had a wrinkle come up: a guy convicted by our jury of raping his daughter was sentenced by our judge this morning to 25 years in state prison plus 25 years to life. The “25 years to life” part was due to a special allegation that adds 25 years to life if the guy had a prior conviction of the same crime (i.e. repeat offender who clearly can’t help himself from molesting kids), which he did; he’d molested his daughter’s friend years before and was convicted in Orange County of that crime. So anyway, now the question is, does this “25 years to life” addition apply just once to the entire sentence, which is what we did this morning to get 25 years plus 25-life, or does it apply for each of the 3 counts he was convicted on, which would bring his sentence to 25 years plus 25-life plus 25-life plus 25-life? Both the judge and the DA are researching this right now, and I’ve called the defense attorney and left him a voice mail. I can’t do the commitment paperwork to send this guy to state prison because his sentence may change, but they need SOMETHING to send him off before the end of the day. Obviously I still need to do the sentencing minute order in the computer which is getting more complicated by the minute. And of course we can’t address it right away because we’re stuck doing this stupid civil court trial where people are fighting over a house.

Which brings me to the other reason I’m working through lunch right now instead of doing a nice long run like I’d planned to. I gotta figure out what these 20 paper exhibits are that the defense just introduced, and log their descriptions into my exhibit list and minute order.

ARGH, I better not miss my flight. Things like this always seem to happen when I need to get somewhere by a certain time after work.