Assassinate A Mistrial: NY Defense Attorney Had Never Tried A Case

First test of a jury trial can be unnerving. What's more, when you almost certainly know, is usually anti-procedural requirements, the trial lawyer should make his debut in cases of murder.

So tell the jury in a murder trial was the first case I've ever tried is recommended.

When a lawyer in New York did just that last week, the judge declared mistrial and the defendant is clearly not his lawyer over-his head.

Judge William Jackson said lawyer Joseph Rakofsky had no understanding of legal procedures, including the rambling opening statement of counsel in which he talked about his inexperience, the Washington Post reports. Rakofsky graduated from Touro Law School in 2009 and obtained a law license in New Jersey less than a year ago, the story said.

Rakofsky had repeated disagreements with DC City Council, causing his client, Dontrelle Deane to become "visibly frustrated," Post says. On Friday, Judge Deane said he wanted a new lawyer. Given the stakes, it's hard to blame him.

The judge declared mistrial after seeing the Court's conclusion, where the researcher claimed Rakofsky shot him to refuse to carry out a lawyer to the proposal e-mail to "trick" the witness, the story says. Rakofsky proposal argued that ". Thanks for the help A good trick for the old woman said that she has not seen the shooting or provide information to lawyers for the shot."

After throwing the case Rakofsky naturally declined to comment on the Post and made a hasty exit from the courthouse, the newspaper said.