When Harry Met Saul Eisenberg, Esq.

Harry Les, everyone's favorite golden-brown digging investment banker perm-temp blogger, has put forth a challenge to Blottered which I will extend to anyone fluent in legal-sleaze:

I have a suggestion for you and Blottered, and how you can make the world a better place, and get some press, and experience for yourself that I am like really really really smarter than you. Are you psyched?

Here is it: Go down to 100 Centre Street and BLOG Quasi LIVE from New York City's Criminal Arraignment Court. Here is what you will likely see and can report to the world: (a) 99.9% of the people arrested are young Black and Hispanic guys; (b) none of these kids have lawyers - they are all represented by legal aid; (c) they will plead guilty to anything that either allows them to go home or to serve a minimum amount of time in jail (I've seen some of them plead guilty to other people's crimes when the court personnel mixed up the cases); (d) all of these arrested kids are charged with two crimes - one charge is a serious one involving long jail time and the other charge is the "plead-guilty-to-charge" that these kids plead guilty to under the delusion that they can go home or get light jail time.

Damn Hars, you did all the leg and kegel work for us! What's the point of us going now? Many thanks for the sociological breakdown, but enough of this boring urban crime, we now return to our regularly scheduled white trash felony programming.