Public Defender Motivational Triad

Which would you find most satisfying

You develop an individualized alternative sentencing plan that results in helping your client avoid jail. Years later the client is off drugs, has a job and is positively involved in the community.

After a lengthy highly contentious case against one of DANY’s top ADAs, your client is found not guilty despite his long criminal history and the violent nature of the offense.

Through a combination of litigation and behind the scenes negotiations you are able to change DANY’s discovery practices.

Which award would you find most satisfying

Recognition for your efforts to design diversion and alternative sentences for disabled youth in the criminal justice system

Recognition for having the most not guilty verdicts over the last 5 years.

Recognition for changing the practice of racial profiling in stop and frisk activities of your local police.

After receiving a guilty verdict and a maximum sentence, you are most consoled by

Your client’s touching thank you for being there for him and the way your treated his family through the process

The prosecutor coming up to you after the case saying she doesn’t want to go through a fight like that again and immediately making you better offers in your next three cases.

You effectively preserved an important issue that is a problem across the state and put it in an excellent position to receive an appellate decision that can impact many other clients.

Which would you find most satisfying

Your client thanks you for going the extra mile to get her into treatment and help her find a job.

Your prosecutor admits he is afraid of going to trial against you.

Your judge says he respects your successful efforts to change his approach to setting bond.

Which quote resonates most with you

“The dignity of the human person means that every human being is worth more than the worst thing they have ever done in their lives” ― Sister Helen Prejean

�Before the State, with all of its power, gets to my client, they gotta go through me.”

�This generation’s civil rights struggle is indigent defense.” - Jon Rapping quoting James Forman, Jr.

Public Defender Motivational Triad

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