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PD News Roundup

By ambimb

In Miami-Dade County, Florida, Carlos J. Martinez will be sworn in as the county’s new top Public Defender today.He’ll be the first  Cuban-American to hold that office. Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, Chief Public Defender Charles T. Jones, Jr., is a candidate for county judge. (At $160k/year, I’m betting the judge position pays better than the PD gig.) The wife of a Mendocino County, California, public defender was arrested in Utah Saturday with 162 pounds of marijuana in the back of her pickup. As a Utah State Trooper observed, “It’s a lot of marijuana.” The public defender, Bert Schlosser, ran unsuccessfully for District Attorney in 2007. (Maybe that’s what he gets for trying to switch sides. On the plus side, the given reason for the stop looks pretty thin...continue to full post

Full post as published by Public Defender Stuff on January 28, 2009 (boomark / email).