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>> My name is Kelly Lloyd, and
I'm an Assistant District Attorney

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for the Montgomery County
District Attorney's Office.

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We handle anything from DUIs, retail thefts,
possessions of small amount of marijuana,

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the whole way up to sexual
assaults, robberies, homicides,

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the first step in the processes
is that somebody gets arrested.

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So the police department handles that, the
local municipality, wherever it may be.

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We have over 60 police departments
in Montgomery County.

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So once they make an arrest, and I get a file.

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I review it and see what happened.

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I read the conduct that the person
has alleged to have committed.

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And I decide what I think an
appropriate offer would be,

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as far as if they wanted to plead guilty.

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So I put in there whether it's probation,
whether it's county incarceration,

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whether it's state incarceration.

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Anything that I feel is appropriate.

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I usually write down the relevant facts, and
then what I think is the appropriate offer.

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It goes through several different
steps in the process.

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But there's negotiations between the defense
attorney, and if you can reach an agreement

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if the offer I've made is
agreeable they'll plead to it,

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but if not we go into the trial stages
where we may have a trial before a judge

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or it could be a trial before a jury.

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For homicide cases it's going to take a lot
more preparatory work, because you have a lot

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of moving parts going, because in
those case you don't have a victim.

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So you need to put together
what happened without having

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that person being able to tell you to do that.

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So you're meeting with witnesses.

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You're gathering evidence, whether it's
forensic evidence, whether it's statements

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from people, live interviews, videos.

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A lot of people have video system
setup now in their own homes,

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and whatever other technology
means that we can use.

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So it's putting all that together and making
it in a commonsense manner that you can explain

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to 12 people that you select, that don't know
each other, and you want to convince one side

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or the other as to what happened in the case.