{"id":1269,"date":"2003-08-25T19:12:40","date_gmt":"2003-08-25T23:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/08\/25\/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-public-defender"},"modified":"2003-08-25T19:12:40","modified_gmt":"2003-08-25T23:12:40","slug":"a-day-in-the-life-of-a-public-defender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/08\/25\/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-public-defender\/","title":{"rendered":"A Day in the Life of a Public Defender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a761'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If any of my ex-law students, just now starting your respective LLM programs, are still reading the blog, I think you will be interested in this eye-opening and well written description of a typical day for attorney Krista M. Larsen, a public defender in the  Chelsea Trial Court:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The first order of business for Larsen, a 30-year-old graduate of Northeastern University and Suffolk Law School, is wrapping up a trial that began the day before. Larsen&#8217;s client, a 55-year-old unemployed produce worker, stands accused of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, the weapon in this case being a bottle of bleach. Larsen has been assigned the case by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, for which she is being paid $30 an hour. Final arguments to the jury are scheduled for 9:30.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/globe\/living\/articles\/2003\/08\/25\/her_day_in_court\/\">from the Boston Globe<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If any of my ex-law students, just now starting your respective LLM programs, are still reading the blog, I think you will be interested in this eye-opening and well written description of a typical day for attorney Krista M. Larsen, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/08\/25\/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-public-defender\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[576],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wacky-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}