the imbroglio

So says a hatchet job article in the Boston Herald.

Everybody in the public defender world is talking about the NYT article from last week about PD offices refusing cases because they don’t have enough resources to adequately handle all the clients being assigned to them.

Golden Gate University Law School Professor Peter Keane is featured on today’s edition of This I Believe on NPR. The good professor was the chief assistant public defender in San Francisco for 20 years and he believes that “everyone, no matter what they have done, deserves to have one person on their side.” Me, too, [...]

Earlier this week Justice Roberts took pains to call attention to the fact that he wants to reduce the level of evidence and suspicion necessary for cops to stop a suspected drug buyer. The SCOTUS denied certiorari in Pennsylvania v. Dunlap (see the last paragraph of that article), in which the Commonwealth of PA appealed [...]

Of course I watched TNT’s “new hit drama,” Raising the Bar. I loved it!

This, my friends, must be origin, cause, and prize for some sort of public defender contest. Perhaps it should be the new award for the I’m thinking about it, so you should, too…. I just want a chance to win this or give it to someone.

Blonde Justice recently posed a great question: Can the Defense Ever Be Pro-Proseuction? Her hypo is about a fellow defense attorney “who had recently been a crime victim.”

I read on my treo RSS reader that Gideon of the blog “a public defender” was quitting his job to go into private civil practice and I totally believed it. My treo downloaded the post before he updated it to say that it was an April fool’s joke and I haven’t had time to look into it further since reading it, so for two days now I’ve been wondering, ‘How could he do that? What’s going to happen to PD Stuff!?’

The song on constant rotation these days is Why Do I Keep Counting by The Killers. I mean, really, if all of our days are numbered…??

As twitter followers and rss readers already know, I finally won a jury trial yesterday! Whoohoo!