Thomas Dennis has a very bad record. He also is a licensed electrician. He brings home the money from his job to support his wife and his kids. Thomas decides that the wife isn't giving him enough back after his allowance, and he feels that he is deserving of a bit more financial freedom. So he does the American thing and gets a second job. Selling drugs.

Well, Thomas gets busted selling drugs. He is offered a split sentence where he has to do four months active time in prison, and then come out on probation. Being an electrician, Thomas is not a stupid guy. So he takes the deal. He shows up for court like a man and goes off to serve his four months.

One week prior to going off to jail, Thomas and his wife have a fight. Nobody gets hurt, but a concerned neighbor calls the police. Thomas gets arrested and charged with assaulting his wife. Thomas is afraid that if everyone knows about this new charge, then his four month deal will be withdrawn. So he doesn't tell me -- his attorney -- that he has been charged with assaulting his wife. I assume he thinks he was being shrewd.

But he was not. In fact, he was being stupid after all. For if I had known about the assault charge when we entered that plea a couple of weeks ago, then I could have bundled in the assault with the deal and not added to his time. Instead, I found out about it today. Thomas is in prison right now. He is not getting any credit on his assault case. It was continued to the officer's next court date -- which happens to be in December. By then, Thomas will only have about thirty days left on his sentence. So if he gets an active sentence to run concurrently with the sentence he is serving now, then any time he gets in excess of thirty days will add to his time in prison.

Dumbass.