Gideon's Promise by Jonathan Rapping

Author:Jonathan Rapping [Rapping, Jonathan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2020-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 6

DAVID’S SLINGSHOT

GUY WILKINSON WAS THE head public defender for the Twenty-Fourth Judicial District of Tennessee, and one of thirty-one district public defenders in the state, when he testified before the Tennessee House Committee on Finance, Ways and Means. As the elected president of the Tennessee Public Defender Conference, he served as the group’s spokesperson. When asked if he had enough resources, he was given the rare opportunity to help the committee understand the plight of public defenders across the state. Focusing on his own district, he responded:

I probably am blessed. . . . You all probably could get up here and you’re always asking for more and more; but in my district . . . I think I have enough assistance to cover the caseload that I have. I have a five-county district. I have an attorney for each county. What I have done is converted one of my investigators into an attorney position so I could cover all the courts. And uh, then I have one investigator for my five-county district. And our caseload, we do about four thousand cases a year. I have been blessed with retention of my staff which means I have experienced attorneys, which really helps a lot in being able to process cases, it’s a time saver in a lot of cases, I think more efficient. . . . They get good quality representation. Of course, I’m bragging. I guess I’m biased. For one district in the state . . . I think you have supplied what I need.1

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