Public Defender Investigator Interns
I looooove using the Google Alerts feature on Google. Its a great way to get news stories delivered to you daily that match search terms that you set-up on your own. It's like having your own personal researcher that works 24 hours a day and delivers a report to you every morning.
I set it up to send me news stories involving Public Defender Investigators, which is how I often get a lot of the topics that I end up blogging about. Why am I explaining this to you? Well, this morning I received a great story that appeared in TCPalm.Com (an online and subscription newspaper out of Florida) written by Derek Simmonsen. The story was about an intern program being run by Private Investigators and the Chief Investigator for 19th Judicial Circuit Public Defender's Office in Florida:
I'm thinking a program like this in California would be a fantastic opportunity for both the interns and the Public Defender offices that are severely understaffed. Do any other counties (regardless of what state you reside) have programs like this that I can refer people to?
I set it up to send me news stories involving Public Defender Investigators, which is how I often get a lot of the topics that I end up blogging about. Why am I explaining this to you? Well, this morning I received a great story that appeared in TCPalm.Com (an online and subscription newspaper out of Florida) written by Derek Simmonsen. The story was about an intern program being run by Private Investigators and the Chief Investigator for 19th Judicial Circuit Public Defender's Office in Florida:
The Public Defender's Office holds several of these training sessions a year, led by private investigators Kreyling, Brandon Perron and Sandy Warner, chief investigator for the Public Defender's Office.This program sounds so friggin cool! I can't even begin to tell you how many emails I get from people who want to break into this line of work asking for tips and just a little direction...neither of which I'm very good at.
Over the course of the four-month program, a group of about 15 students learns how to conduct interviews at the jail and with witnesses on the street, take photos of crime scenes, read and analyze police reports and conduct surveillance. As part of their training, they take on real assignments from assistant public defenders and actually play a role in criminal cases.
Public Defender Diamond Litty said with 21,000 cases in 2006 — and only one-full time and one part-time investigator on staff — the interns are a tremendous help, allowing paid staff to work on more serious cases. Since the program began 14 years ago, interns have donated more than 100,000 hours of investigative time and the program has been presented to other public defender offices around the state.
I'm thinking a program like this in California would be a fantastic opportunity for both the interns and the Public Defender offices that are severely understaffed. Do any other counties (regardless of what state you reside) have programs like this that I can refer people to?
Labels: Internships, Training
posted by Sanchovilla at 12:09 PM
5 Comments:
We have one of the best criminal defense training programs right here in California. Its called Defense Investigators Training Accreditation and it's sponsored by the Defense Investigators Association, organized by public defender investigators.Find out more: http://www.cdia.org/D.I.T.A..html
I was a Public Defender investigator intern in DC.
ME TOO!
The NH Public Defender has an intern program, we use students from NH colleges that work (unpaid) for one semester. They are a huge help!
I occasionally browse this and other PD blogs. I hope you don't mind my reply to such an old post.
I just so happened to have experienced some training seminars with Brandon Perron. I'm the Investigative Support Staff at my office and the chief let me sit in on training. Mr. Perron is dedicated to the proper training of Defense Investigators. The State gets all the money and all the goods and the Defense has to keep one step ahead of them. I'm sure you can relate to that! It's great that he has set up programs tailored to the defense. It's so rare to come across any training or information geared towards our side. We had Brandon do a session for two years, then we switched for this year. That person trains our local officers. It was an insult. She badmouthed the outcome of one of our landmark cases (Ever see Murder on a Sunday Morning?) and she had us do the most ridiculous exercise. She gave us a picture in a hand out that was a drawing of a crime scene and she gave us the specialized stencils to... get this... draw the crime scene. We basically copied the drawing in front of us. Needless to say, we'll be booking Brandon again next year.
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