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Screw The Public Defenders

By Brian Tannebaum, Esq.

There's just no such thing about a stupid comment among friends. When it happens, blogging about it the next day is as timely as eating 4 week old bread.My friends David Markus, Jeff Gamso, and Scott Greenfield reported the news yesterday that Aspen District Attorney Martin Beeson (great website by the way) said:Public defenders are not defenders of the public. They are not serving the public good. They are taxpayer-funded attorneys for criminals.The comment came in response to a reporter's question about the disparity between budgets for prosecutors and public defenders.These are the kinds of stories for which little commentary is needed, but we discuss them anyway. The story is not just that a public official, the public official charged with seeking justice feels this way and said it, it's that many agree...continue to full post

Full post as published by Criminal Defense on October 29, 2010 (boomark / email).