So apparently, when a very angry federal judge yells at you that you didn’t point out something in your papers, and asks why you didn’t, he’s not looking for the answer “Because I thought it was self-evident, Your Honor.”

But he cut the government’s requested sentence in half, anyway, and gave the client all the time he wanted to surrender.

I probably shouldn’t have said it. But to paraphrase Capt. Malcolm Reynolds, “Well, they tell you never antagonize a federal judge, but it is, on occasion, hilarious.”

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