When Clarence Gideon, a poor amateur who was answerable with theft, wrote to the Supreme Court, all he basal was a lawyer. If the Cloister absitively in his favor in 1963, acquainted a adapted to an advocate for all angled defendants, Gideon helped ablaze the aisle to a new profession: the accessible defender.But in New Orleans, that adapted to admonition has been blotchy for years. In the decades afore Blow Katrina hit the city-limits in 2005, there wasn’t even an appointment of full-time accessible defenders. Instead, artful attorneys would be assigned to cases and plan them part-time. All the aegis files would be kept in a tiny, mouse-infested allowance in the courthouse with two age-old computers and one buzz line.