A prosecutor joined the Regional District Attorney’s Office in Juneau this week, bringing the number of assistant district attorneys to three.
The position was created to help ease the case load out of the office, which covers cases in Juneau, Hoonah, Yakutat, Skagway, Haines, Petersburg and Kake. More than 1,000 cases have been prosecuted so far this year in Juneau alone.
“Another attorney in this office is helpful,” District Attorney David Brower said.
Nick Polasky, 33, of Juneau, was hired to fill the position and began work Monday. He will be assigned to cases from Petersburg and Kake, in addition to Juneau cases.
For the past five years, Polasky was an assistant district attorney out of the Regional District Attorney’s Office in Ketchikan.
He graduated from Juneau-Douglas High School in 1997, then attended Saint John’s University in Minnesota, where he earned dual bachelor degrees in history and theology.
He went on to teach English for two years in the Jilin province in China, which is northeast of Beijing. When he returned to the United States, he attended the University of St. Thomas School of Law in Minneapolis, Minn., and graduated in 2006.
He clerked for a district court judge in Freeborn County in Albert Lea, Minn., for one year, then moved back to Southeast Alaska.
Brower said Assistant District Attorneys Amy Williams and Angie Kemp will continue to prosecute cases out of Haines and Skagway, and Hoonah and Yakutat, respectively.
The Regional District Attorney’s Office in Juneau is one of three that comprise the First Judicial District covering Southeast. The other two are based out of Ketchikan and Sitka.
• Contact reporter Emily Russo Miller at 523-2263 or at emily.miller@juneauempire.com.
Comments (7)
Add commentToo many laws, creat too many
Too many laws, creat too many criminals.
Hence the need for more bottom feeding lawyers.
Really Madison?
I guess you must know him personally to call him a bottom feeder? please tell us what you know....
I suspect madison has a long
I suspect madison has a long history with the DA's office.
Lighten up people. Q: What's
Lighten up people.
Q: What's the difference between a lawyer and a halibut?
A: One is a scum-sucking bottom feeder, and the other is just a halibut.
Maybe the case load...
...will be alleviated enough to charge offenders in 8 month old cases that pertain to more serious violations than eating roaches. You know, the kind when some hooded hood enters your home and shoves your wife to the floor at gunpoint and pins her down in front of your kids and steals her purse and car to head off to his next victims.
Madison would have us believe
Madison would have us believe that it is the law that makes the criminal. That right there is the problem with society. Blame everyone but the one who bears the responsibility!
MadDad -You are right, it is
MadDad -You are right, it is 99% of the lawyers out there that give the other 1% a bad name.
really-I blame polititians that make so many volumonous laws, that the average person can not keep up.
These polititians are nothing more than control freaks that can not stand the thought of a free people runing their own lives.
So they pass laws to regulate every aspect of human behavior, & interaction.
Hence the need for more bottom feeding geldoffs.
Madison
You said that you blame polititions that make up so many volumonous laws,that the average person can not keep up with. Well I'm pretty average and I'm not breaking any laws.
So Madison what laws are you breaking that are so hard to keep up with?