If a criminal defendant fails to appear at court, the judge issues a warrant for his or her arrest.
On the other hand, if the district attorney fails to appear at court, we fucking sit there and wait, and wait, and wait, and wait, until some other DA who just got handed the file strolls in (45 min late) and says she won't concede the motion, even though the expungement statute is supposed to be self-executing, because blah blah frickety blah blah. So then we have to talk to the judge, who says we need to order a transcript, and now we're setting the stupid motion off another month or so.....
I say fuck that in its lopsided ass. This is street ball rules. You don't show up, you forfeit.
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