Attorneys who appear regularly in Winifred Smith's courtroom say the five-year judge, who assigns a heavy felony calendar at the Wiley W. Manuel Courthouse, is no pushover. But she'll take time to hear a defendant's plight. "Some of the judges on our bench ... don't begin to have a clue about the kind of pressures and difficulties that most of our clients have to live with day to day," said public defender William Locke III. "She seems to be a lot more understanding about those difficulties."
April 12, 2005 at 12:00 AM
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