It runs to five printed pages. But he remembers most of it from previous encounters. Trono is slight, prematurely gray, alert, sociable. This county's towns are small, even the state capital. It has mountainside farms, granite sheds, state offices, insurance companies.
Crime rates are low.
Even so, Terry Trono and his four deputies take on some 40 new cases every week, around 1,800 cases a year. On any given day, these attorneys may deal with cases ranging from burglary to heroin dealing, child abuse to drunk driving, rape to writing bad checks. In many cases, Trono and his staff willingly admit, a plea bargain is a necessary tool. With more than 2,000 cases a year in this county, and a single District Court judge, only a fraction of the cases can possibly come to trial. You get over it, and get on.