Fiscal year 8,6 12 felony cases. Our average annual caseload per attorney is 196. Now, in our profession, we look to whats called the nac, American Bar Association standards. Thats the National Advisory commission. These standards were set forth in 1973 to determine what caseloads public defenders should be handling. And for felony cases the standard is 150. So, were about 28 above the standard. We recently completed a case weighting report. The case weighting report is in addition to counting cases. What the case weighting process does is it allows managers to determine the actual work load of the attorney. And, so, what were looking at there is the number of cases that the attorney is handling individually, the type of cases, each type of case is assigned a weight based on the relative seriousness of the case. And this is something that was determined by the Controllers Office in 2003 and our department has implemented this. And, so, applying that model, the average workweek and this
Mens u. S. Open tennis champion. Reporter from across the bay to around the world, the stories that matter on kpix 5 news this morning. Captions by caption colorado comments captioncolorado. Com your realtime captioner linda Marie Macdonald. Good morning. It is tuesday, september 10. Good to have you with us. Im frank mallicoat. Im michelle griego. Time now is 6 01. We are just hours away from a big announcement from apple. The company is expected to announce two new models of its iphone. And an earlymorning fire berkeley prompted evacuation. The twoalarm fire happened on oregon and telegraph streets at an apartment building. The morgan hill fire on mount diablo is still burning. The fire is 20 contained this morning. Mount diablo state park is still closed because of the fire. Kpix 5s cate caugiran is with the firefighters at their base camp in dublin this morning. Cate. Reporter michelle, we can see that the new round of firefighters are getting ready for the day actually getting the
Where she asked why and when. Reporter with this tweet, twitter declared its intentions in 135 characters to be exact. The twitter ipo seems all the talk of silican valley. This man says hes on Twitter Daily and heard the tweet heard throughout the financial word. Why shouldnt they tweet that theyre going ipo. Thats the basis of their business. Reporter in the tweet the social Media Business said they were seeking for an ipo, and now a picture that said back to work. Twitter is using the confidential option. Allowed under circumstances by a new law. That allows them to decide what goes into the disclosure options without having it information public. I have to start with by tweeting this. Reporter twitter has been a social force. It has a broader political effect on the world. Its a new communication tool. And so i think that changes the way people look at it. Reporter Steve Diamond says the ipo could take any where from six weeks to six months. Its estimated twitter makes 690 million
Forced the balloon 1,000 feet to the ground. A u. S. Photographer snapped these photos before several groups of tourists took flight to see some of luxors famous sights. Authorities say no americans were riding in the balloon that went down. Three people including the balloons pilot survived. They reportedly jumped out of the balloon before it crashed. Tina kraus, cbs news. Hot air balloon crashes have happened in luxor before. 16 people were hurt four years ago when a balloon came down after hitting a communications tower. A bay area couple missing in south america may have been spotted just 10 days ago. Kpix 5 reporter cate caugiran is in the newsroom this morning. And cate, there is some word from peru on what they might be doing. Reporter kpix 5 spoke with a hostel operator this month who believes they are still in the area. Peruvian tv reports these photos of garrett hand and jamie neal. It shows them taking a bus to lima january 26 days after they stopped posting on facebook. The
cases, we handled in this fiscal year 8,6 12 felony cases. our average annual caseload per attorney is 196. now, in our profession, we look to what s called the nac, american bar association standards. that s the national advisory commission. these standards were set forth in 1973 to determine what caseloads public defenders should be handling. and for felony cases the standard is 150. so, we re about 28% above the standard. we recently completed a case weighting report. the case weighting report is in addition to counting cases. what the case weighting process does is it allows managers to determine the actual work load of the attorney. and, so, what we re looking at there is the number of cases that the attorney is handling individually, the type of cases, each type of case is assigned a relative seriousness of the case. and this is something that was determined by the controller s office in 2003 and our department has implemented this. and, so, applying that model, the ave