Former New Mexico public defender

“I always did like criminal law. I think it’s maybe less mind bending than some other areas. It’s intuitive to me.”

“I loved it [in New Mexico] immediately, because I had resources that I had never had with criminal cases, either retained or court-appointed cases, in Virginia.”

“In Santa Fe when I first got there were so many people on the staff that had never even been inside a courtroom, so they had no idea what we were doing in court. So we started bringing the staff to court, and it made the most tremendous difference, because they were suddenly invested.”