One Lawyer, One Day, 194 Felony Cases [nytimes.com]

Alicia Doktor 2/4/1912:00 PM

On April 27, 2017, Jack Talaska, a lawyer for the poor in Lafayette, La., had 194 felony cases.

113 clients had been formally charged. The rest are not pictured.

High-level felonies carry sentences of 10 years or more and should each get 70 hours of legal attention, according to a workload study.

[For more on this story by RICHARD A. OPPEL JR. and JUGAL K. PATEL, go to https://www.nytimes.com/intera...nder-case-loads.html]

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