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Gave Sotomayor Firsthand Look at Crime and Punishment
Jump to full article: The Washington Post, 2009-06-04
Author: Joe Stephens and Del Quentin Wilber Washington Post Staff Writers
Intro: Former New York police detective Chris Montanino remembers his frustration nearly three decades ago, when he was ready to go after child-porn distributors but couldn't find a prosecutor who would take his case seriously.
Then he returned a call from a young woman at the local district attorney's office -- an intense, chain-smoking prosecutor known for working into the night, fueled by the caffeine buzz from a string of Tab diet sodas. . . .
The prosecutors were expected to juggle 80 to 100 cases at a time, and in her years there Sotomayor tried perhaps 20 cases before juries. She survived by becoming, in the words of her friend Dawn Cardi, a "caffeine addict" who started her day with a Tab, one of maybe 20 she threw back on an average day, along with a pack and a half of cigarettes.
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