In which Gideon answers your questions
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I get some reader mail now and then and it’s usually about someone’s family member in jail or some conspiracy theory. Which is fine. But then I get the “are you really a lawyer?” “Have you tried any cases?” “Did you even attend law school?”
Since it’s a Sunday and I’m tired of scouring the web to bring you the stupidest stupidity, I’ll take a break to answer that second question.
(Okay, it wasn’t reader mail; it was the imbroglio who asked)
The question was posed thusly:
If you’re a PD and you’ve read this far, please tell me: How often do you go to trial in a year? Do you work mostly felony or misdemeanor cases? Inquiring minds want to know!
Okay, inquiring mind, I will tell you. On average I am on trial 5-6 times a year. They are only felony trials and some of them are even fun!
Others weigh in more informatively.
If you have a question for the Gideon, leave it in the comments.
Back to scouring.
So I’ve been following a few PD and general law blogs for several months now and y’all have convinced me that some of the problems in the criminal justice system (the resource disparity between prosecutors and the defense, MADD’s madness, the unjust conundrum plea bargains can impose on defendents, increasingly militarized law enforcement, and many more…) might just be some of the most important but least popular social justice issues of the day.
Any ideas for how a non-lawyer could help? Lesser-known charities you think are worthy of a few bucks?