How Do You Plead?
Police say Tomas Sheerin of County Kildare, Ireland, had an argument with a man and decided to break into the man’s house to beat him up. He climbed into a bedroom window late at night but made so much noise that one of the house’s occupants awoke and called out “Who’s there?” Sheerin answered “It’s me, Tommy.” In court to plead guilty to the resulting burglary charge, Sheerin’s lawyer conceded his client is “a few bushes short of a shrubbery.” (PA) ...There you are, folks: proof that there is such a thing as an honest lawyer.
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