When Katharine E. Lum received a ticket for her car accident, she unexpectedly found herself anxious when she showed up to court representing herself, as litigants in legal matters routinely do. "If I was this nervous as a trained attorney, how must they have felt? Especially folks for whom a traffic fine meant the difference between making rent this month or not," said Lum, a judge on Colorado s Court of Appeals, to her colleagues on Friday.
When Katharine E. Lum received a ticket for her car accident, she unexpectedly found herself anxious when she showed up to court representing herself, as litigants in legal matters routinely do. "If I was this nervous as a trained attorney, how must they have felt? Especially folks for whom a traffic fine meant the difference between making rent this month or not," said Lum, a judge on Colorado s Court of Appeals, to her colleagues on Friday.
Colorado s second-highest court ruled last week that an El Paso County defendant did not clearly invoke his constitutional right to an attorney when he wondered whether police could "get me