Public Defense

Some days are agonizing

By Gideon

In this line of work, I don’t think there’s anything more heart wrenching that sitting across from a likely innocent client and having to tell him that there’s no way to prove that innocence and then watching him hold back tears and decide between two morbid choices: accepting the plea offer and spend the next 15 years locked up or go to trial and risk 60 years.

Sometimes I feel overwhelmed.

Full post as published by A Public Defender on February 11, 2009 (boomark / email).