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Judge Has PD Arrested for Failing to Have Case Ready for Trial in 24 Hrs

By Adam Levin, Benjamin Goldberg, and Garrett Nail

You've probably heard by now . . . ABC is reporting that an Ohio Public Defender was ordered arrested because he was unprepared on a case to which he was assigned one day prior to the trial.  Others (Simple Justice and A Public Defender) have written better items on the matter, but I had to get this off my chest. The criminal justice system too often views public defenders as a fungible resource: if someone in the public defender's office was assigned the case, then any of the public defen read more

Full post as published by Southern Criminal Law and Justice on August 22, 2007 (boomark / email).