Day Three
Day Three is much like Day One, except that I don't fuck up any of the morning essay questions so spectacularly.
The guy next to me has been a cop for fifteen years and explains that he got a subpoena for a trial taking place during the Bar Exam, because he took the bullet from the hospital to the police station in a homicide case (chain of custody issues), but fortunately the DA didn't call him. He says he thinks that nobody in California believes police officers when they're on the stand. This is interesting to me, because in Alaska and Hawaii jurors generally give police testimony a lot of credibility. We discuss the current state of California weather, which includes tornadoes in Sacramento and swimming pools falling into the ocean farther south. Then he asks, "Is it just me, or is taking this exam kind of stressful?" I tell him that it's not him.
The last part is a performance test-- writing an appellate brief on a position to which the law is pretty strongly contra. I explain why the law is actually supportive without wading too far into a swamp of fantasy, and then it's over.
Wow.
The guy next to me has been a cop for fifteen years and explains that he got a subpoena for a trial taking place during the Bar Exam, because he took the bullet from the hospital to the police station in a homicide case (chain of custody issues), but fortunately the DA didn't call him. He says he thinks that nobody in California believes police officers when they're on the stand. This is interesting to me, because in Alaska and Hawaii jurors generally give police testimony a lot of credibility. We discuss the current state of California weather, which includes tornadoes in Sacramento and swimming pools falling into the ocean farther south. Then he asks, "Is it just me, or is taking this exam kind of stressful?" I tell him that it's not him.
The last part is a performance test-- writing an appellate brief on a position to which the law is pretty strongly contra. I explain why the law is actually supportive without wading too far into a swamp of fantasy, and then it's over.
Wow.
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