The Flat Tire Defense

A single judge can change the math of your entire life, especially when a plea deal means nothing in their courtroom. Over coffee, I tell a true criminal defense story from Snohomish County district court that starts like a routine DUI case and turns into a two-year strategy to keep a good client from getting crushed by the maximum sentence. You’ll hear how local court rules and continuances can quietly become the most powerful tools in the system, and how one well-known lawyer’s “endless de...