I’m watching Night Court now. Thanks for all the inside scoop!
The blonde actress (Bernadette from Big Bang Theory) playing the judge and her husband are both executive producers on the show.
I did not know they were using the same theme music. That took me right back. Lol.
Ok, Night Court questions.
On the original show, did the first Judge Stone not rule on cases? I sort of thought he did, but the show was on a long time ago.
The one episode that I remember the most was when they were trying to break a record for the most people to get through the court room in one shift, or something like that. And as it got down to the wire, the last guy talked slower than molasses in January at the north pole. And everybody else in the court room was ready to jump off a cliff, particularly when the guy said, “But… I… digress….”
That one was pretty funny.
Wasn’t his trademark “$50 and time served”?
They need more characters and character development. That courtroom and arraignme t office has about 4 or 5 clerks. There’s always another 3 or 4 court officers in the court room too. A realistic portrayal will have someone having an affair with staff or an alcoholic. Also, a pervert.
Judges rotate working arraignment and intake parts in real life so you’d never get a judge just assigned that part. It’s impractical given the amount of days a judge gets off. It’s a fairer burden to rotate.
It’s an arraignment part. The defendant comes in to enter a plea - guilty or not guilty. A guilty leads to sentencing if a minor easy thing or for a sentencing hearing date on another day. If not released, bail conditions are set in that case or when a defendant enters a not guilty plea.
Many times there is a guilty plea but the defendants has been in jail for 72 or in the old days 96 hours. So like if it’s a prostitution or trespass or similar charge the guilty cones with a time served. Or a fine. Or both.
People get a little crazy in night court. And I mean the staff. I have some good stories.
I remember that episode! I don’t remember there being a record for any such count. I do remember we would hand write how many bodies (That’s how they refer to them, sorry) were waiting in the system and approximate time until arraignment. So you might have 545 and 96 hours as an example. At the end of the shift there was a new count. The NYPD has an office right across the hall (back then) so papers were constantly shuffled back and forth.
In the old days each case was hand docketed. That’s one of things I did. Used a stamp machine with an automatic number rotation stamp. Nowadays your hand doesn’t get beaten up as the computer assigns it.
To the right of the court house, across a narrow street is 1 Hogan Place. It’s were the District Attorneys have their offices. So the DA, Court, Police and Cirrections were all nestled in that one spot, except for NYPD main building 1 Police Plaza which is down by City Hall.
All night shifters have the more fun shift/personalities. No supervisors.
There is always a boss clerk in arraignments. Usually an Associate Court Clerk who supervise the Senior Court Clerks. The court officers are also supervised with their office nearby. They also get more $$ with a time differential. And all the guys there usually worked doubles. Because they could. I never did. But I was 25 years old and a newlywed and they were 40, 50, 60 years old and avoiding their wives. There were people also having an affair.
And everyone ate at Forlinis Italian Restaurant which was right out the back door. A favorite of court staff. And mine.
Forlinis finally closed in 2022. I wept.
Let’s see if the show mentions Forlinis. Or Little Italy. Or Chinatown. All within a few block radius.
Okay, insomnia posting here. For those further along on that, does the phrase “whack with a dead cactus” apply to anything in the Barisone threads? I know houseguests does….
A picture of the interior. Pardon my 2 am NostalgiaFest.
Literally every court Christmas party was at Forlinis. For decades.
I’d add Shelley Nelly Belly, the very bestest friend in the whole world, to that short list - I’d be panicking if I were her. NO, I LOVE YOU MORE! 
The key to determining whether its Shelly Nelly Belly, is to see if she is desperately looking for LK’s attention online.
Hey, If you google “USEF Silver Stirrups National Grand CHampion” you get two results, both of them referring to lauren Kanarek. Has anyone else ever heard of that award before? She llists it on her Instagram. How do you get that award?
I found this - haven’t read it but presumably someone explains it further.
And this -
She won it, she indicated, 2016. Don’t know what division.
Winning it in 2016 would make sense if it was published in the April 2017 magazine that is shown above.
It looks like the division is training level dressage in Zone 3. Which to me means she was the zone 3 champion (still a great thing) and not a national champion but, since this is coming from Lauren Kanarek, a small bit of truth with embellishments is pretty darn typical.
Silver Stirrup Award no longer exists, at least it isn’t something currently available to join. It was designed to showcase regional and national winners, based on points, of horses. It was replaced by breed awards. One has to pay a small fee to join and once joined, the awards keep coming as long as the horse competes. It’s 15 year old obsolete program at this point. They did give nice awards. Since the program was new and never took off, it was fairly easy to win due to lack of competition. One of our mares was always a regional and national winner because she had few others obtained more points. If she was still competing she would still be considered for awards.
I feel certain Robin encouraged LK to join Silver Stirrups since she also had her performance horses registered at the time.
Question for the legal folks. When there is a change in attorneys, does the previous attorney turn over all their notes and files to the new attorney? Do they do it for free, or does the new attorney pay for the info? Or does the new attorney have to start from scratch gathering info (outside of what is in the eCourt filings)?
What happens if the previous attorney was working on contingency? Can they invoice the client for their expenses (since they will never have a chance at recovering any $$$ through settlement of the case)? Or are they just SOL?
If you look under Silver Stirrup National, Training Level AA, she is champion.
Silver Stirrup doesn’t go by scores, but by placing in class and number of competitors in the class. So you do better by just going to more shows. She showed in 56 classes that year. (Entered more, but had scratches and withdrawals.)
Also for the legal folks - did Nagel file an answer to MB’s counterclaim, and if so, how does this new one by Stone differ from the one Nagel filed? (I didn’t see it on the list of filings but could have easily overlooked it.)
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