When you spend 5 years working in a public defenders office, you get exposed to a plethora of scoundrels, freaks and idiots...and that's just the lawyers and judges.

There are many funny instances and memorable characters. One of the consequences of working in the office is that you become on a first name basis with every prostitute in the city. My in-laws would visit my wife and me, we would go to a festival on the river, and hookers would come up to me to say hello and how I've been.