Journal entries for each week are due on or before Friday, and each entry will be returned to you with comments within one week of my receipt of the journal entry. Each student develops an individual schedule of the days and times they will be at the Public Defenders Office. However, the best schedule is one that allows the student to be in the office two or more mornings a week and serve the rest of the scheduled hours in the afternoons. Students will also meet as a class once a week for approximately a two-hour class period at the public defenders office in Clayton. The quality of each student s experience in the Criminal Justice depends in large part on the effort he or she puts into this experience.
Every effort is made to provide students with increased responsibilities throughout the semester.
There is a Criminal Justice Clinic Experience Checklist form designed to assist students in experiencing as many fundamental lawyering skills and values as possible. As the semester proceeds, it is the students primary responsibility to discuss their progress in completing the checklist of activities with the attorneys in the Public Defender Office and with their supervising faculty member. If a student feels that he or she is not receiving the exposure to the types of experiences expected, the student is encouraged to discuss it early in the semester.