Due to hiring freezes & our prioritization of felonies, our misdemeanor team shrunk as we kept filing new cases. The result: average caseloads rose from ~150 in 2019 to nearly 250 today. That is too many cases for one attorney, no matter how hard working. We need more lawyers.
Take accountability, Chesa. You are not cut out for this job. Go back to being a public defender or a podcast host. Anything but a DA; a job you are woefully unqualified to keep.