If you want to know what the typical domestic abuse trial looks like, read this case. Sometimes it can be entertaining to see the convoluted stories people come up with to recant. Particularly in cases when the police witnessed the assault. It's amusing in a very sad way. This dynamic also causes problems in the off case when a false report really was made: the prosecutor will never believe it if the person tries to come forward with the truth.
UPDATE: Contrast that with civil work, though, and I miss it a little. It's generally more exciting - at least you get to do the courtroom stuff, the last-minute, spontaneous, "by the way, co-employee called in sick: you've got a trial in ten minutes" type of stuff. But then, in my line of work you can always get files like this:
In far-famed Madison County, Ill., 40-year-old Rhonda Nichols is suing the Lowe's Home Center in Alton, saying she was seriously injured when a bird flew into her head at the outside gardening area. She wants more than $50,000:
According to the suit, filed by the St. Louis firm of Anderson & Associates, the store "allowed wild birds to enter the Gardening area in which customers travel ... (and) that said wild birds created a dangerous condition."
Nichols claims the bird caused injuries to her head, brain, neck, muscles, bones, nerves, discs, ligaments, as well leading to the loss of neurological functions and cognitive skills.
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