A three-strikes case, by contrast, is just one more file in the stack on a public defender's desk and a judge's docket.
I was leaving the country early the next morning, and decided I would let Mexican officials know what happened to me at the airport's ministerio público, the term used in Mexico for a public prosecutor's desk.
It is no longer feasible to chain a public official to a desk in a secure room in a globalized world.
The new courthouse will have a library, public information desk and concession stand.
It has become a handbag must-have, a public transport companion, a desk-mate in the office and seemingly invaluable for mothers wiping down sticky toddlers.
"The Newsroom" stars Jeff Daniels as a cable-television news anchor who, after a public meltdown, returns to his desk with a renewed sense of purpose.
It's only a public school, after all, with public school desks and 25 5-year-olds to a room.
Sarah de Bunsen, head of the public cash desk, says that once someone came in with a wheelie suitcase packed with £400,000 of notes that were no longer legal tender, and wanted the cash back.
Similarly, the Kuwaiti parliament's call for the oil industry to be 100% Kuwaiti is wonderfully unrealistic: few Kuwaitis would accept a job away from a desk.So, public pronouncements to the contrary, the GCC will continue to employ foreign labour.
