THIS CASE JUST DESCRIBED DUSTY STAYED IN THE SADDLE

Was one of a number of cases I tried over the years where the perfect sanity of my client might well have been called into question. 

Sometimes this was done, sadly, by defense counsel itself, because under the circumstances there was no one else left to so suggest.

I tried to refrain from doing this, for a variety of reasons I won't go into here, and gained even a questionable, but also well deserved, reputation in that regard, of not properly even appearing to see that my client might not be firing on all six.

In this regard, I had chosen what I liked to think of as the high road. 

If the state chose, with ample opportunity and resources greater than mine, to indict rather than have mentally examined; and then to saddle me a horse of this kind to ride, I showed that I was capable of remaining in the saddle, and the horse usually proved that it was capable of carrying me through the ordeal.

But let's not kid ourselves here......

Some of the clients whose cases I tried and won were nutty as fruitcakes.