>> My name is Kelly Lloyd, and I'm an Assistant District Attorney
for the Montgomery County District Attorney's Office.
We handle anything from DUIs, retail thefts, possessions of small amount of marijuana,
the whole way up to sexual assaults, robberies, homicides,
the first step in the processes is that somebody gets arrested.
So the police department handles that, the local municipality, wherever it may be.
We have over 60 police departments in Montgomery County.
So once they make an arrest, and I get a file.
I review it and see what happened.
I read the conduct that the person has alleged to have committed.
And I decide what I think an appropriate offer would be,
as far as if they wanted to plead guilty.
So I put in there whether it's probation, whether it's county incarceration,
whether it's state incarceration.
Anything that I feel is appropriate.
I usually write down the relevant facts, and then what I think is the appropriate offer.
It goes through several different steps in the process.
But there's negotiations between the defense attorney, and if you can reach an agreement
if the offer I've made is agreeable they'll plead to it,
but if not we go into the trial stages where we may have a trial before a judge
or it could be a trial before a jury.
For homicide cases it's going to take a lot more preparatory work, because you have a lot
of moving parts going, because in those case you don't have a victim.
So you need to put together what happened without having
that person being able to tell you to do that.
So you're meeting with witnesses.
You're gathering evidence, whether it's forensic evidence, whether it's statements
from people, live interviews, videos.
A lot of people have video system setup now in their own homes,
and whatever other technology means that we can use.
So it's putting all that together and making it in a commonsense manner that you can explain
to 12 people that you select, that don't know each other, and you want to convince one side
or the other as to what happened in the case.