From public defender blogger Of a Public Defender’s Life:
It has always worked this way: I’ll go months without having any trials, or even any trials set, and then suddenly, I have tons! By this time tomorrow, I will have had three trials in two weeks. The way our judges calendar things, usually about one in three trials set actually “go,” so you do the math. In addition to being in court constantly, I have three of the neediest clients in the office. They’re really sweet, and very incompetent, but they tend to leave about ten messages a day on my voicemail, each. And when they happen to catch me in the office, I’m on the phone with them for a half hour. This is when “Evercom,” the jail phone system, cuts them off. Usually, when a client is on the phone with me for that long, I can do something else, while still following what they are saying. But with them, it takes all my focus to figure out what they are talking about.
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