Sacramento County Public Defender Interview

On Wednesday, March 7th, I took place in an interview with the Sacramento County Public Defender’s Office. There were three interviewers that conducted this interview, over Facetime, this afternoon at 3:39 pm, which were Debra, Steve and Peter. The interview process began with Peter Inouye, in which he introduced the other interviewers and then began the interview questions by asking me to introduce myself. In response, I let them know that I was a senior at the University of California, Irvine campus and I was currently studying Criminology, Law and Society, in addition to Psychology and Social Behavior. I went into further detail, explaining that I had just applied to a Sociology of Law master’s program in Sweden. When asked why I wanted …show more content…
Debra then asked for me to describe their mission statement, which I did to the best of my abilities. After this initial question, Debra asked if I remembered the lead public defender on the site, when I replied no she asked me to describe him. My description of the man included his physical features, such as his age, hair color, facial hair and glasses. From there, Steve went on to ask several interview questions. Initially he asked if I had a driver’s license, which I replied yes to. He then went on to ask about my driving record and I admitted that although I do not have any speeding tickets, I did receive a ticket about two years ago for going over double yellow lines. I went on to explain that this situation was handled when I paid the ticket and attended driving school. As a follow up question, Steve asked if I had any family members that I had been arrested and I responded that to the best of my knowledge none had been arrested. Steve then went on to have me explain situations in which a failure or conflict arose. In response, I used two work examples. To illustrate the failure situation, I used an example of children from work that I teach lessons