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@riosparada is an attorney, I don't know if this is his cup of tea or not, but he's a great guy and might be able to connect you guys to resources to help.
Upvoted and resteemed for visibility.
@riosparada is an attorney, I don't know if this is his cup of tea or not, but he's a great guy and might be able to connect you guys to resources to help.
Thank you and thanks for tip! I will look him up.
I am an attorney too but I practice environmental law. I had absolutely no idea how different criminal is and how screwed up the system was.
Yeah it's seriously messed up. I've been giving serious thought into becoming a public defender myself. Not an attorney myself, but evidently neither is the guy representing your sister.
PDs aren't criminal defense attorneys . They have one job -- to shepherd the accused through the system and make sure the court proceedings conform to very basic constitutional requirements (like the right to cross-examine witnesses, and habeas corpus, and the protection against self-incrimination).
Formulating and providing a defense, to the extent that they do it at all, is just incidental to their primary duty. And as a PD you can't really be too aggressive about doing so, because the office of the DA essentially has the power to fire you.
If someone wants to make a real difference, the best path i s to open a private practice, and do some pro-bono criminal defense work.
He is not! My sister was arrested a week ago today and immediately asked for an attorney. So far, neither he nor anyone from his office has attempted to contact her. They just make them rot until they go crazy. It is so unbelievable.
She's very unlikely to have any kind of meaningful interaction with her attorney until after the prelim. hearing when she's indicted (which is basically a formality. they don't arrest people that they can't indict).