So none of those things are calculated let me give you another example. Im murder case scheduled to go to trial in two weeks. The case i handled, i have made maybe eight or nine Court Appearances on that case and obviously once the case goes to trial i will be in court for about a month. That is indistinguishable under the District Attorneys algorithm. You cant extrapolate that have i only 52 of the workload because the court events are more or less. I mean, i swear i have never heard of court events being used. When i talk to the people at the Court Management system, i asked them the same thing and apparently it was a practice that was started by going forward, every time you are in trial the District Attorney is with you. I assume there might be slightvarianations, variations, but the complexities are the same . When you say the complexity of the case that the District Attorney frontloads more than we do. When we went through this with the controller, they wanted to make sure our ca
Concerns. I support Domestic Violence services. The two issues i was asked to address by the budget analyst, the first concerned our staffing and how the Public Defenders Office staffs Domestic Violence and cases that are handled by private attorneys who are retained or attorneys who are appointed because there is a conflict of interest. I have a powerpoint. I have a handout for the supervisors. The question we were asked by the budget analysty was whether or not the Public Defenders Office had staff dedicated exclusively to handling Domestic Violence cases . Before august, 2012 our office are two dedicated attorneys who handled only Domestic Violence cases. We changed that in august, 2012. Now all of the misdemeanor Domestic Violence cases are assigned to 12 misdemeanor attorneys who handle all types of cases. You might wonder why they decided to change that . What was happening is because we only had two attorneys handling Domestic Violence cases, the trials, particularly the ones wh
The question we were asked by the budget analysty was whether or not the Public Defenders Office had staff dedicated exclusively to handling Domestic Violence cases . Before august, 2012 our office are two dedicated attorneys who handled only Domestic Violence cases. We changed that in august, 2012. Now all of the misdemeanor Domestic Violence cases are assigned to 12 misdemeanor attorneys who handle all types of cases. You might wonder why they decided to change that . What was happening is because we only had two attorneys handling Domestic Violence cases, the trials, particularly the ones where they had to be out to trial within a certain period of time were getting backed up. And people were not able to bring their cases to trial in a timely fashion and we were getting a lot of complaints from individuals who wanted their cases tried. And because we only had two attorneys handling those cases, sometimes one attorney would have 6 and 7 cases backed up. The consequence of that is tha
San francisco juries, this doesnt count people who plead guilty or entered other [stkpaoupbgsz ] verdicts. In 2011, 46 , and in 2012, 54 . You look at the number of hung juries and guilty verdicts, in 2011, only two guilty verdicts what does that mean . Again i would argue that it means that the District Attorney needs to do a better job of screening which case goes to trial. In most counties, the conviction rate is like 90 , 95 , Santa Clara County its Something Like 98 . In San Francisco the reason why were i think were expending resource wheres we dont need to, because were trying cases that dont need to be tried. These are cases where San Francisco juris have heard all the evidence and have said not guilty. Again, i think that if these cases were reviewed more carefully, in terms of what the provability is and i think the problem says that the District Attorney says were insisting on a jury trial and not to play tit for tat, because i dont think were here for that, but the District
We changed that in august, 2012. Now all of the misdemeanor Domestic Violence cases are assigned to 12 misdemeanor attorneys who handle all types of cases. You might wonder why they decided to change that . What was happening is because we only had two attorneys handling Domestic Violence cases, the trials, particularly the ones where they had to be out to trial within a certain period of time were getting backed up. And people were not able to bring their cases to trial in a timely fashion and we were getting a lot of complaints from individuals who wanted their cases tried. And because we only had two attorneys handling those cases, sometimes one attorney would have 6 and 7 cases backed up. The consequence of that is that you would have to wait in jail for weeks, sometimes months before your case went to trial, because your attorney was not available. And so we changed that. And instead, we spread all of the Domestic Violence cases over our entire staff that handles misdemeanor cases