The Second Chair
“During that time, she’d mostly done litigation work for Freeman’s firm, mixed with a steady if unexceptional flow of criminal cases that she picked up in the usual way, the so-called conflicts cases. She was on the list for court appointments, and once a month she would appear in court while a succession of criminal cases were called and doled out mostly to the Public Defender’s Office. Every few cases, though, there would be more than one defendant—accomplices in robberies or drug deals.In the...se cases, the Public Defender’s Office could not take on more than one of the defendants; it would be a conflict of interest. And so the court would appoint one of the on-hand lawyers sitting in the courtroom on conflicts day to represent the other defendants. In this way, Wu had represented a wide variety of clients and gotten what she had thought (until today) was a well-grounded schooling in the nuts and bolts and even some of the intricacies of criminal law.But she’d never been assigned to a murder case.MoreLess
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