Sunday, July 8, 2007

Gun Unit Stays Busy

By Julie Bykowicz
Sun reporter
Originally published July 8, 2007
One in an ongoing series of articlesSitting behind her desk in the basement of this city courthouse, prosecutor Jessica Paugh all but disappears among the accordion folders and manila files piled on her office chairs, strewn about her desk and stacked all over the floor.
Paugh usually has about 60 open gun and nonfatal shooting cases. On this day, moments after a judge handed down a 30-year prison sentence to a man she prosecuted for attempted murder, she's about to present two indictments to the grand jury before hustling back to her office to prepare for two interviews with shooting victims and two trials slated to start the next day.
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