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From In These Times: Homeless Court Advantage (D)owntown San Diego... is where the country?s first homeless court began. No witness stand. No bench for the judge. Just a bare ground with some folding chairs. Started by San Diego County public defender Steve Binder in 1989, the court offers the homeless population access to the legal system. It took ?a great leap of faith to go to the homeless shelter? to hold court, says Binder... ?A lot of defendants don?t trust their public defenders,? he says. At the same time, he says ?some public defenders think people on the streets are just bums. We have to extend ourselves and get past that initial resistance.? For Binder, it took almost a year to earn the confidence of the first homeless person who set foot on that downtown San Diego handball court to see him...continue to full post

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