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[US] N.G. Van Cleve Crook County 30: ‘I don’t want to sit through trials and eat their dog-ass food’.
at dog-assed, adj.
[US] N.G. Van Cleve Crook County 48: You’re in there with the toilet and about 16-20 defendants and they’re all putting their two cents in while you’re trying to talk to your defendant.
at put in one’s two cents’ (worth) (v.) under two cents’ worth, n.
[US] N.G. Van Cleve Crook County 56: I asked my supervising prosecutor how promotion worked in the office. She said abruptly that to get promoted, you have to ‘suck the most dick’.
at suck someone’s dick (v.) under dick, n.1
[US] N.G. Van Cleve Crook County 31: [M]any private attorneys [...] flipped cases for cash. Their business model thrived on taking as many cases as possible and closing them as quickly as they could. Profits were in quantity of disposals, not quality of representation.
at flip, v.6
[US] N.G. Van Cleve Crook County 20: [A] courthouse where attorneys played the same immoral ‘games’ as a common street hustler.
at game, n.
[US] N.G. Van Cleve Crook County 21: Locals also call the [Cook County] jail the ‘Hotel California.’ On the surface, it is a play on the Eagles’ 1976 hit and a euphemism for a jail located on California Avenue.
at Hotel California (n.) under hotel, n.
[US] N.G. Van Cleve Crook County 103: ‘I live my life . . . intellectually . . . and emotionally like in a roll top desk. [...] This goes in there, this goes in there. And when it’s time to go home, I pull that puppy down’.
at puppy, n.
[US] N.G. Van Cleve Crook County 33: [Y]oung, inexperienced, and idealistic—all the reputational markers that could get you roughed up in the courtroom and quickly mark you as an outsider among the inner circle of professionals.
at rough up, v.
[US] N.G. Van Cleve Crook County 115: [F]ailure to pay court fees, sustain employment, remain sober, or comply with reporting procedures could all get you scooped up by the police.
at scoop, v.
[US] N.G. Van Cleve Crook County 33: ‘Street cred is like any credibility. If I have street credibility, I’m not a snitch. I’m tough. I don’t take no shit, [I] pay dudes I know, back them up no matter what, am always there for them [...] and if I’ve developed street credibility people respect and fear me.’.
at street cred (n.) under street, the, n.
[US] N.G. Van Cleve Crook County 171: The judge [...] is going to whack you so you better stop playing games’.
at whack, v.1
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